Open AccessTreatment Patterns and Outcomes of Women with Breast Cancer and Supraclavicular Nodal Metastases
Author(s) -
Nina Tamirisa,
Yi Ren,
B Campbell,
Samantha M. Thomas,
Oluwadamilola M. Fayanju,
Jennifer K. Plichta,
Laura H. Rosenberger,
Jeremy Force,
Terry Hyslop,
E. Shelley Hwang,
Rachel A. Greenup
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.764
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1534-4681
pISSN - 1068-9265
DOI - 10.1245/s10434-020-09024-1
Subject(s) - medicine , multimodal therapy , systemic therapy , breast cancer , cohort , proportional hazards model , radiation therapy , surgical oncology , cancer , oncology , logistic regression
In 2002, breast cancer patients with supraclavicular nodal metastases (cN3c) were downstaged from AJCC stage IV to IIIc, prompting management with locoregional treatment. We sought to estimate the impact of multimodal therapy on overall survival (OS) in a contemporary cohort of cN3c patients.