Prognostic factors in metastatic breast cancer: a prospective single-centre cohort study in a Finnish University Hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although novel early breast cancer prognostic factors are being continuously discovered, only rare factors predicting survival in metastatic breast cancer have been validated. The prognostic role of early breast cancer prognostic factors in metastatic disease also remains mostly unclear.

Design and setting

Prospective cohort study in a Finnish University Hospital.

Participants and outcomes

594 women with early breast cancer were originally followed. Sixty-one of these patients developed distant metastases during the follow-up, and their primary breast cancer properties, such as tumour size, nodal status, oestrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor expression, grade, proliferation rate, histopathological subtype and breast cancer subtype were analysed

SUBMITTER: Karihtala P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7552835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature