Premium
Carcinoma of the breast. The prognostic significance of extranodal extension of axillary disease
Author(s) -
Mambo Nobby C.,
Gallager H. Stephen
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197705)39:5<2280::aid-cncr2820390548>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - medicine , breast carcinoma , disease , axillary nodes , breast cancer , axilla , carcinoma , retrospective cohort study , oncology , surgery , radiology , cancer
A retrospective study to determine the effect of extranodal axillary disease on prognosis in invasive carcinoma of the breast was undertaken in a series of 152 cases. It was found that extranodal disease has an unfavorable effect on prognosis in those patients with three or less involved axillary nodes and no effect on prognosis in those patients with four or more involved axillary nodes. Extranodal axillary disease was found to have no influence on the interval between surgery and initial recurrence nor on the anatomic distribution of the recurrence, local or remote.