title: "T" category and operable breast cancer prognosis.
abstract: The authors report on 4,034 consecutively operated breast cancer cases, evaluating the correlation between clinical T category and long term survival. Age and pathologic nodal status were also considered as independent prognostic factors. Univeriate and multivariate (Cox's) analysis confirmed N status as the most powerful single prognostic indicator and did not reveal any prognostic correlation with age. T category was a strong prognostic indicator, independently of N status, the 10 year overall survival of T1, T2 or T3-4 cases being 0.86, 0.76 and 0.73 in N- and 0.73, 0.56 and 0.35 in N+ subgroups respectively. T category should be carefully considered not only in deciding the extent of surgical excision but also in planning adjuvant postoperative treatment.
authors.affiliation: Centro per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica, Firenze, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ciatto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cecchini
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Iossa
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grazzini
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis