Clinical significance of the lymph node ratio in N1 breast cancer
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Clinical significance of the lymph node ratio in N1 breast cancer
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of the lymph node ratio (LNR), which was defined as the proportion of involved nodes of all dissected nodes, in pN1 breast cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of patients with pN1 breast cancer (N = 144) treated at Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Daegu, Korea between 2001...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Oncology Journal
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2234-1900,2234-3156
DOI: 10.3857/roj.2017.00101