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Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Ortenau-Klinikum Offenburg-Kehl, Ebertplatz, Offenburg, Germany

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• Research Article   
  Nodal Positive Breast Cancer and its Regional Lymph Node Involvement
  Author(s): Heidrun Männle*, Matthias Frank, Felix Momm and Jan Willem Siebers
  
  Objective: In breast cancer, the lymph node status is of prognostic importance and a decisive factor in therapy planning. This study shows the distribution of lymph nodes metastases of node-positive breast cancer patients. Risk factors for lymph node metastases are described. Methods: 2095 patients with primary breast cancer were analyzed. Analysis included descriptive analysis (median, standard deviation, ranges) and statistical analysis (Chi2 , discriminant analysis). Results: The nodal stage was positive in 39.4% of all patients and negative in 60.6%. If the nodal stage was positive, only 1 lymph node was involved in 36% of the patients; more than 1 lymph node was involved in 64% of the patients. With an increasing number of lymph node metastases in level I, the probability of an involvement in level III also increa.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-0870.22.S16.004

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