Prognostic significance of axillary dissection in breast cancer patients with micrometastases or isolated tumor cells in sentinel nodes: a nationwide study

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 599-606

  Tvedskov, Tove Filtenborg ^a   Jensen, Maj Britt ^b   Ejlertsen, Bent ^b   Christiansen, Peer ^c   Balslev, Eva ^d   Kroman, Niels ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ALND; Breast cancer; Isolated tumor cells; Micrometastases; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROMETASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; TUMOR INVASION; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER GRADING; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VERY ELDERLY;

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM MICROMETASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 84942984385     PISSN: 01676806     EISSN: 15737217     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10549-015-3560-7     Document Type: Article

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