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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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2010-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2882951?pdf=render |