Open AccessDistance Between the Tumour and Nipple as a Predictor of Axillary Lymph Node Involvement in Breast Cancer
Author(s) -
Jiqiao Yang,
Qianru Yang,
Arjudeb Mukherjee,
Qing Lv
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cancer management and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-1322
DOI - 10.2147/cmar.s262413
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , quadrant (abdomen) , lymph node , confounding , logistic regression , axilla , sentinel node , radiology , oncology , cancer , pathology
The possibility of axillary node metastasis via the lymphatics might be related to a cancer's location within the breast. Previous studies of this topic had small sample sizes, inaccuracies because of subjective differences, and the inability to depict the entire three-dimensional structure of the breast. Here, we aimed to improve upon these existing drawbacks by retrospectively analysing whether tumour location (quadrants) and tumour-nipple distance can predict axillary node positivity.