Clinical significance of occult micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes in "node-negative" breast cancer patients

Japanese Journal of Cancer Research

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 695-698

  Umekita, Yoshihisa ^a   Ohi, Yasuyo ^a   Sagara, Yoshiatsu ^b   Yoshida, Hiroki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAGARA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Immunohistochemistry; Micrometastases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCULT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036327553     PISSN: 09105050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2002.tb01308.x     Document Type: Article

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