Clinical and pathological factors influencing survival in a large cohort of triple-negative breast cancer patients.
Silvana Anna Maria UrruSilvano GallusCristina BosettiTiziana MoiRicardo MeddaElisabetta SollaiAlma MurgiaFrancesca SangesGiovanna PiraAlessandra MancaDolores PalmasMatteo FlorisAnna Maria AsunisFrancesco AtzoriCiriaco CarruMaurizio D'IncalciMassimo GhianiVincenzo MarrasDaniela OnnisMaria Cristina SantonaGiuseppina SarobbaEnrichetta ValleLuisa CanuSergio CossuAlessandro BulfonePaolo Cossu RoccaMaria Rosaria De MiglioSandra OrrùPublished in: BMC cancer (2018)
This uniquely large study of TNBC patients provides further evidence that, besides tumor stage at diagnosis, lymph node ratio among lymph node positive tumors is an additional relevant predictor of survival and tumor recurrence, while Ki-67 seems to be predictive of mortality, but not of recurrence.