Baseline Characteristic No. of Patients %
Age
≤50 57 43
>50 73 56
Tumor phenotype
Luminal A 30 23
Luminal B 34 26
Luminal B like 26 20
Her2 neu positive 21 16
Triple negative 19 15
Histology
Ductal 117 90
Lobular 9 7
Other 4 3
Grade
1 0  
2 18 14
3 112 86
Proliferation index
Ki 67% ≤ 14% 16 12
Ki 67% ≥ 14% 114 87
Stage at initial breast cancer diagnosis
Stage I 0  
Stage II 21 16
Stage III 46 35
Sage IV 63 49
Indications for PET/CT
Other abnormal radiology 65 50
Locally advanced breast cancer 23 18
Symptoms 32 25
Indication not determined 10 7
First therapy for MBC
Endocrine therapy 31 24
Targeted with or without endocrine therapy 25 19
Chemotherapy 74 57
Table 1: Baseline characteristics of the studied group of patients.