BACKGROUND: Infiltrating MBC represents less than 1% of all male cancers. Our study
details clinico-pathological features, treatments and prognostic factors in a large French …

Purpose The American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system for breast cancer was
recently updated to reflect the impact of increasing the absolute number of positive lymph …

Purpose: To investigate whether the ratio between metastatic and examined lymph nodes (N
ratio) is a better prognostic factor as compared with traditional staging systems in patients …

Background Histopathology is a cornerstone in the diagnosis of cervical cancer but the
prognostic value is controversial. Methods Women under active follow-up for histologically …

Purpose In the current pTNM classification system, nodal status of breast cancer is based on
the number of involved lymph nodes and does not account for the total number of lymph …

BACKGROUND: Log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) is defined as the log of the ratio
between the probability of being a positive lymph nodes and the probability of being a …

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States.
Of the different subtypes, estrogen receptor–negative (ER−) tumors, which are ErbB2+ or …

Background Recent literature has shown that lymph node ratio (LNR) is superior to the
number of positive lymph nodes (pLNs) in predicting the prognosis in several malignances …

BACKGROUND: The non–small cell lung cancer TNM classification system uses only the
anatomic extent of lymph node (LN) metastases to define the N category. The number of LNs …

Breast cancers commonly spread to lymph nodes (LNs). If the primary tumors are estrogen
receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) positive, then the likelihood that LN …