Selective Application of Axillary Node Dissection in Elderly Women with Early Breast Cancer
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Summary
No clinically or statistically significant difference in survival was observed among women who received ALND when compared with those who did not, although the authors could not account for differences in co-morbidity or use of systemic therapy between groups.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2007-02-01
- Cited by
- 17
- References
- 24
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- https://openalex.org/W1970686927
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22241638
Keywords
Surgical oncology, Medicine, Breast cancer, Axillary Dissection, Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
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- Predictors and Outcomes of Completion Axillary Node Dissection Among Older Breast Cancer Patients
- Breast cancer in the elderly.
- Breast cancer in elderly compared to younger patients in the Netherlands: stage at diagnosis, treatment and survival in 127,805 unselected patients
- Evaluation of the histological size of the sentinel lymph node metastases using RT–PCR assay: a rapid tool to estimate the risk of non-sentinel lymph node invasion in patients with breast cancer
- Axillary Lymph Node Burden in Invasive Breast Cancer: A Comparison of the Predictive Value of Ultrasound-Guided Needle Biopsy and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy.
- Inequality in sentinel lymph node dissection for elderly women with early stage breast cancer: Results from a French prospective cohort study
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- Underuse of axillary dissection for the management of sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer.
- Association of LN Evaluation with Survival in Women Aged 70 Years or Older With Clinically Node-Negative Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer
- Axillary lymph node surgical treatment
- Palliative Local Surgery for Locally Advanced Breast Cancer Depending on Hormone Receptor Status in Elderly Patients
- Overall health at diagnosis predicts the risk of complications within the first year after breast cancer diagnosis
- Sentinel Node Biopsy Should Not be Routine in Older Patients with ER-Positive HER2-Negative Breast Cancer Who Are Willing and Able to Take Hormone Therapy
- Le cancer du sein chez la femme âgée (hors situation métastatique)
- Omission of Axillary Staging and Survival in Elderly Women With Early Stage Breast Cancer
- Survival benefit from axillary surgery in patients aged 70 years or older with clinically node-negative breast cancer: A population-based propensity-score matched analysis.
- The Association Between Surgical Axillary Staging, Adjuvant Treatment Use and Survival in Older Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer: A Population-Based Study
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