Extent of breast cancer key for predicting spread
 

http://www.reuters.com/article/healt...98010020071019

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question
 

How do they determine the amount of residual "cancer"?

Do you have a link for the abstract with this study?

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TRS

Terri, here is a link to the abstract: http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/28/4414

"Residual<SUP> </SUP>cancer burden (RCB) was calculated as a continuous index combining<SUP> </SUP>pathologic measurements of primary tumor (size and cellularity)<SUP> </SUP>and nodal metastases (number and size) for prediction of distant<SUP> </SUP>relapse-free survival (DRFS) in multivariate Cox regression<SUP> </SUP>analyses."

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