A straightforward but not piecewise relationship between age and lymph node status in Chinese breast cancer patients.

A straightforward but not piecewise relationship between age and lymph node status in Chinese breast cancer patients.

PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between age and axillary lymph node (LN) involvement in Chinese breast cancer patients, and to replicate a recently identified piecewise relationship between age and LN involvement. METHODS: A dataset, consisting of 3,715 patients (with complete information o...

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Main Authors: Ke-Da Yu, Jun-Jie Li, Gen-Hong Di, Jiong Wu, Zhen-Zhou Shen, Zhi-Ming Shao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2882951?pdf=render

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