The prognostic significance of the percentage of positive/dissected axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer recurrence and survival in patients with one to three positive axillary lymph nodes

Cancer

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2006-2014

  Truong, Pauline T ^a,b   Berthelet, Eric ^a   Lee, Junella ^a   Kader, Hosam A ^a,b   Olivotto, Ivo A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast carcinoma; Locoregional recurrence; Mastectomy; Positive lymph nodes; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, DUCTAL, BREAST; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18044382700     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.20969     Document Type: Article

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