Prognostic significance of immunohistochemically detected breast cancer node metastases in 218 patients
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- 25 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in British Journal of Cancer
- Vol. 87 (1) , 70-74
- https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600420
Abstract
Axillary lymph node metastases detected by immunohistochemistry in standard node-negative patients with breast carcinomas (13 out of 129 infiltrating ductal carcinomas and 37 out of 89 infiltrating lobular carcinomas) do not have any prognostic significance in patients followed up for a long time (respectively 24 and 18 years). Moreover, their pejorative significance in the literature is debatable since the groups and events taken into account are heterogeneous.Keywords
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