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The effect of tumor size and axillary lymph node metastasis on estrogen and progesterone receptors in primary breast cancer
Author(s) -
Alghanem A. A.,
Hussain S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930310317
Subject(s) - medicine , progesterone receptor , estrogen receptor , breast cancer , estrogen , receptor , primary tumor , lymph node , metastasis , axillary lymph nodes , oncology , lymph node metastasis , lymph , mammary gland , cancer , pathology
We evaluated the estrogen receptors (E r ) and the progesterone receptors (P r ) in 209 female patients with primary breast cancer. There is statistically a very highly significant negative correlation between the size of the tumor and the P r (p = 0.007); large tumor contains low P r . The same correlation was found with E r , but it was not statistically significant (p = 0.40). There is also a negative correlation between the number of axillary metastatic lymph nodes and E r and P r , but this was not statistically significant.