[Early breast cancer in terms of modes of growth and extension].
The modes of growth and extension of breast cancer have been evaluated in operated specimens. It has been found that in patients with a cancer in the duct, the outcome was more closely related to the degree of the extraductal infiltration than the size of the tumor. If early breast cancer is defined as a cancer associated with a 10-year survival rate of 90% or more then lesions of the intraductal type with an extraductal infiltration of less than 1/4 of the entire tumor extension fall into this category.
Dept. of Surgery, Shikoku Cancer Center Hospital.
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Takashima
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Saeki
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Tanada
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Hara
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Takiyama
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Hara
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Doihara
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Moriwaki
D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D011379:Prognosis