## Background and Objectives: The anatomical extent of nodal metastasis has been replaced by the number of metastatic nodes as a key indicator of prognosis (pN categories) in the fifth edition of Tumor Node Metastasis Classification for gastric carcinoma by the International Union Against Cancer.
Prognostic value of the 2002 TNM classification for breast carcinoma with regard to the number of metastatic axillary lymph nodes
✍ Scribed by Nüvit Duraker; Zeynep Civelek Çaynak
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Volume
- 104
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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