Abstract：
:Although the presence of axillary node metastases in breast cancer is a key prognostic indicator and may influence treatment decisions, a significant proportion of patients diagnosed as axillary node negative (ANN) using standard histopathological techniques may have occult nodal metastases (OMs). A combination of limited step-sectioning (4 x 100 microns intervals) and immunohistochemical staining (with cytokeratin (MNF.116) and MUC1 (BC2) antibodies) was used to detect OM in a retrospective series of 208 ANN patients. OMs were found in 53 patients (25%), and both step-sectioning and immunohistochemical detection significantly improved detection (P < 0.05). Detection using BC2 (25%) was superior to MNF.116 (18%) and haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) (8%). OMs were found in 51 patients using only the first and deepest sectioning levels and BC2 staining. OMs were more frequently found in lobular (38%) than ductal carcinoma (25%), and more frequently in women less than 50 years (41%) than in older women (19%). Univariate overall and disease-free survival analyses showed that the presence, size and number of OM had prognostic significance as did tumour size (disease-free only) and histological and nuclear grade (P > 0.05). Cox multivariate proportional hazard regression analyses showed that the presence and increasing size of OMs were significantly associated with poorer disease-free survival, independently of other prognostic factors (P < 0.05). However there was not a significant independent association of the presence of occult metastases with overall survival (P = 0.11). These findings have important implications with regard to selection of ANN patients for adjuvant therapy.
journal_name
Br J Cancerjournal_title
British journal of cancerauthors
McGuckin MA,Cummings MC,Walsh MD,Hohn BG,Bennett IC,Wright RGdoi
10.1038/bjc.1996.16subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-01-01 00:00:00pages
88-95issue
1eissn
0007-0920issn
1532-1827journal_volume
73pub_type
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1993.472
更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2012-12-04 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1985.174
更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602908
更新日期：2006-01-30 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2016-01-12 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6602085
更新日期：2004-08-31 00:00:00
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pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
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更新日期：2005-01-31 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6604765
更新日期：2009-01-13 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1996.121
更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1993.206
更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：British journal of cancer
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1973.143
更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6600268
更新日期：2002-05-20 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjc.6601578
更新日期：2004-01-26 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjc.1986.265
更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
