Study of the Relations Among Tumor Size and Axillary Lymph Nodes Involvement With the Prognosis of Patients With Breast Cancer Surgery in Shohada Hospital in Tehran, Tajrish
Elham Sadeghi* and Sara SadeghiDepartment of Surgery, Medicine Faculty, Islamic Azad University Medical Beranch, Tehran, Iran
Abstract: Facts and evidence hold out a steadily increasing prevalence of breast cancer in the mid-1940s. In most cases, the disease is discovered when the disease has reached an advanced stage, therefore, early diagnosis can significantly reduce the burden of disease. Breast cancer has some risk factors such as tumor size and lymph node involvement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between tumor size and axillary lymph node involvement and the prognosis for patients with breast cancer has been surgery. The study population consisted of 100 patients with breast cancer surgery at Shohada Hospital of Tajrish during the last 10 years. The results suggest that lymph node involvement was significantly associated with prognosis in patients with breast cancer and in cases where the tumor size was less than one centimeter, it has no impact on the prognosis of breast cancer. Also, a family history of the disease among close relatives is an independent risk factor for poor prognosis, in patients with breast cancer in general it can be said that involvement of lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer is due to an unfavorable prognosis; but the number of lymph nodes involved and the size of the tumor did not have any effect on the prognosis.
Keywords: tumor size; axillary lymph nodes; the prognosis; screening; breast cancer Back to TOC