Breast cancer subpopulation with high risk of internal mammary lymph nodes metastasis: Analysis of 2,269 Chinese breast cancer patients treated with extended radical mastectomy

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 379-387

  Huang, Ou ^a,b   Wang, Liping ^a   Shen, Kunwei ^a   Lin, Hong ^a   Hu, Zhen ^a   Liu, Guangyu ^a   Wu, Jiong ^a   Lu, Jinsong ^a   Shao, Zhiming ^a   Han, Qixia ^a   Shen, Zhenzhou ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Extended radical mastectomy; Internal mammary lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MASTECTOMY, EXTENDED RADICAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 38649142182     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-007-9561-4     Document Type: Article

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