Relative microvessel area of the primary tumour, and not lymph node status, predicts the presence of bone marrow micrometastases detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction in patients with clinically non-metastatic breast cancer

About 50% of patients with breast cancer have no involvement of axillary lymph nodes at diagnosis and can be considered cured after primary locoregional treatment. However, about 20–30% will experience distant relapse. The group of patients at risk is not well characterised: recurrence is probably d...

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Autores principales: Benoy, Ina H, Salgado, Roberto, Elst, Hilde, Van Dam, Peter, Weyler, Joost, Van Marck, Eric, Scharpé, Simon, Vermeulen, Peter B, Dirix, Luc Y
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1064134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15743502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr980

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1064134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15743502
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/bcr980

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