Discussion of Relationships among Changes of Pathological Indicators, Postoperative Lymphedema of the Upper Limb and Prognosis of Patients with Breast Cancer – A Report from a single center of China
Zhang Xiping, Tang Binbin, Zou Dehong, Yang Hongjian, Qiao Enqi, HeXiangming, Yu Feijiang. Bioscience Reports Apr 16, 2019, 39 (4)
Main findings
Patients with lymph node metastasis were more prone to lymphedema of the upper limb, while it was easier for those whose Ki-67 expression level was high and who were not subject to lymph node metastasis to get a pathological complete response after receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapies. The prognosis was poorer among patients whose progesterone receptors were negative and Ki-67 expression levels were high at the advanced pTNM stage.
