title: Nodal involvement in poorly differentiated breast cancer.
abstract: The degree of nodal involvement in a consecutive series of 400 patients with invasive ductal breast cancer is presented. A positive correlation was observed between the number of metastatic nodes identified and the number of axillary nodes examined for poorly but not moderately differentiated tumours. The relevance of this observation to breast cancer trials is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Discipline of Surgery, Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dickinson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Agrez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001365:Axilla; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D002285:Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies