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Breast Cancer
Advanced local disease may predict distant metastases for premenopausal women
December 1st, 2005
Advanced local disease and suboptimal axillary node evaluation may predict distant metastases for premenopausal women. Scientists in the United States conducted a study "to identify clinicopathological factors predictive of distant metastasis in patients who had a pathologic complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NC). Retrospective review of 226 patients at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center identified as having a pCR was performed." A. M. Gonzalez-Angulo and colleagues reported, "Clinical stage at diagnosis was I (2%), II (36%), IIIA (27%), IIIB (23%), and IIIC (12%). Eleven percent of all patients were inflammatory breast cancers (IBC)....
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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