Breast Cancer

The number of both involved and uninvolved axillary nodes affects survival

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, April 14th, 2003

Survival in early breast cancer appears to require a number of uninvolved axillary nodes; patient survival is continually decreased by each node that becomes involved.

"The change in survival in function of the numbers of involved and uninvolved axillary nodes in early breast cancer was investigated to search for prognostic cutoffs and to assess if ratio-based characterization of node involvement is a significant prognostic factor or not," researchers in Belgium report.

"Women aged 40-69, diagnosed in 1988-1997 with T1-T2 invasive breast carcinoma who underwent axillary dissection were selected from the SEER public database. The method determines...

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Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2003-04-14)

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