The prognostic significance of skin involvement in breast cancer patients with chest wall recurrence.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the prognostic significance of skin involvement in breast cancer patients with chest wall recurrence (CWR).

Methods

We retrospectively analyzed the clinicopathological data of breast cancer patients with CWR who were diagnosed pathologically between January 2000 and April 2020. Disease-free survival (DFS) was the time from radical resection for CWR to disease recurrence. Progression-free survival (PFS) was defined as the time from the diagnosis of locally unresectable CWR to the first sign of disease progression. Persistent chest wall progression was defined as three consecutive chest wall progressions with no distant organ involvement.

Results

A total of 476 patients with CWR were included in this study. Skin involvement was confirmed in 345 patient

SUBMITTER: Zhou D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337506 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature