More tumor-affected lymph nodes because of the sentinel lymph node procedure but no stage migration, because the 2002 TNM classifies small tumor deposits as pathologic N0 breast cancer

Cancer

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 5589-5595

  Bolster, Marieke J ^a   Bult, Peter ^a   Wauters, Carla A P ^b   Strobbe, Luc J A ^b   Peer, Petronella G M ^c   Wobbes, Theo ^a   Tjan Heijnen, Vivianne C G ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Micrometastasis; Sentinel lymph node; Stage migration; TNM classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 72249106668     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24629     Document Type: Article

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