## Background and Objectives: The introduction of multimodal therapy has improved the prognosis in stage III breast cancer. A knowledge of the likely axillary lymph node status at presentation is important, both to plan surgical therapy to the axilla and to establish the effect of induction therap
Clinical and pathologic factors predicting axillary lymph node involvement in breast cancer
β Scribed by Masakuni Noguchi; Masafumi Kurosumi; Hiroji Iwata; Mitsuru Miyauchi; Masatoshi Ohta; Shigeru Imoto; Kazuyoshi Motomura; Kazuhiko Sato; Koichiro Tsugawa
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 940 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1340-6868
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