Surgical treatment trends and identification of primary breast tumors after surgery in occult breast cancer: a study based on the Japanese National Clinical Database-Breast Cancer Registry

CONCLUSIONS: Breast surgery for cT0N+ decreased between 2010 and 2018. Despite the high identification rate of primary tumors, most tumors were small, and there was no significant change in the identification rate or invasive diameter of the identified tumors after 2010.PMID:35316446 | DOI:10.1007/s12282-022-01348-y

Source: Breast Cancer - March 22, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Mitsuo Terada Minoru Miyashita Hiraku Kumamaru Hiroaki Miyata Kenji Tamura Masayuki Yoshida Etsuyo Ogo Masayuki Nagahashi Sota Asaga Yasuyuki Kojima Takayuki Kadoya Kenjiro Aogi Naoki Niikura Kotaro Iijima Naoki Hayashi Makoto Kubo Yutaka Yamamoto Hiromit Source Type: research