Does the number of lymph nodes examined in patients with lymph node-negative breast carcinoma have proanostic significance?

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 664-671

  Salama, Joseph K ^a   Heimann, Ruth ^b   Lin, Fen ^a   Mehta, Neil ^a   Chmura, Steven J ^a   Singh, Rachana ^a   Kao, Johnny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Breast carcinoma; Lymph nodes; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CARCINOMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 13444294241     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20830     Document Type: Article

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