Nipple sparing mastectomy in breast cancer patients and long-term survival outcomes: An analysis of the SEER database.

To determine the prevalence of nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) and its long-term survival outcomes in breast cancer patients.We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database and identified 2,440 breast cancer patients who received NSM during 1998-2013. We used chi-square and binary l...

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Main Authors: Mingzhu Li, Kai Chen, Fengtao Liu, Fengxi Su, Shunrong Li, Liling Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5571910?pdf=render