Modified lymph node ratio improves the prognostic predictive ability for breast cancer patients compared with other lymph node staging systems

Background: Metastatic regional lymph nodes (LN) is a strong predictor of worse long-term outcome. Therefore, different LN staging systems have been proposed in recent years. In this study, we proposed a modified lymph node ratio (mLNR) as a new lymph node staging system and then compared the progno...

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Main Authors: Ming-Liang Jin, Yue Gong, Yu-Cheng Pei, Peng Ji, Xin Hu, Zhi-Ming Shao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Breast
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960977619305958