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Axillary lymph node nanometastases are prognostic factors for disease-free survival and metastatic relapse in breast cancer patients. |
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| Authors: | Patrizia Querzoli Massimo Pedriali Rosa Rinaldi Anna Rita Lombardi Elia Biganzoli Patrizia Boracchi Stefano Ferretti Claudia Frasson Caterina Zanella Sara Ghisellini Federico Ambrogi Laura Antolini Mauro Piantelli Stefano Iacobelli Ettore Marubini Saverio Alberti Italo Nenci |
| Affiliation: | Department of Experimental and Diagnostic Medicine, Section of Anatomic Pathology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy. |
| Abstract: | PURPOSE: Early breast cancer presents with a remarkable heterogeneity of outcomes. Undetected, microscopic lymph node tumor deposits may account for a significant fraction of this prognostic diversity. Thus, we systematically evaluated the presence of lymph node tumor cell deposits |
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