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Long-Term Outcome Of Breast Cancer Patients With One To Two Nodes Involved-Application Of Nodal Ratio, Patricia Tai, Kurian Joseph, Ali El-Gayed, Edward Yu
Long-Term Outcome Of Breast Cancer Patients With One To Two Nodes Involved-Application Of Nodal Ratio, Patricia Tai, Kurian Joseph, Ali El-Gayed, Edward Yu
Edward Yu
Abstract: Nodal ratio (NR) is defined as the number of involved nodes to the number of nodes examined. There is limited information on the application of NR on population data. Previous reports in breast cancer generally analyzed one to three positive axillary nodes as a single group. This study investigates whether one to three positive axillary nodes is a homogeneous group in prognosis by comparing one to two positive nodes to three positive nodes. The population-based registry of a Canadian province from 1981 through 1995 was searched. As the reliability of nodal assessment depends on the number of nodes sampled, …