Relation of number of positive axillary nodes to the prognosis of patients with primary breast cancer. An NSABP update

Fisher, Bernard; Bauer, Madeline; Lawrence Wickerham, D.; Redmond, Carol; R. Fisher, Edwin; B. Cruz, Anatolio; S. Foster, Roger; Gardner, Bernard; J. Lerner, Harvey; G. Margolese, Richard; Poisson, R; R. Shibata, Henry; Volk, Herbert; NSABP INVESTIGATORS, OTHER

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19831101)52:9<1551::aid-cncr2820520902>3.0.co;2-3

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Relation of number of positive axillary nodes to the prognosis of patients with primary breast cancer. An NSABP update

Published in Cancer • Nov 1, 1983

Authors:

Bernard Fisher

Madeline Bauer

D. Lawrence Wickerham

Abstract

The current findings completely affirm the validity of our original observations indicating the appropriateness of grouping primary breast cancer patients into those with negative, 1 to 3, or greater than or equal to 4 positive nodes. Results, however, reveal that there is a risk in combining all pa...

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Medicine

Breast cancer

Axillary nodes

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