Breast Cancer Patients With Positive Apical or Infraclavicular/Ipsilateral Supraclavicular Lymph Nodes Should Be Excluded in the Application of the Lymph Node Ratio System

Breast Cancer Patients With Positive Apical or Infraclavicular/Ipsilateral Supraclavicular Lymph Nodes Should Be Excluded in the Application of the Lymph Node Ratio System

Aim: Increasing studies have demonstrated lymph node ratio (LNR) to be an accurate prognostic indicator in breast cancer and an alternative to pN staging; however, the AJCC-TNM staging system classified apical or infraclavicular/ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node-positive (APN(+)) patients with...

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Main Authors: Zhe Wang, Wei Chong, Huikun Zhang, Xiaoli Liu, Yawen Zhao, Zhifang Guo, Li Fu, Yongjie Ma, Feng Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
Subjects:
breast cancer
cut-off values
lymph node ratio
prognosis
pN stage
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2022.784920/full

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