1. IS TUMOR VOLUME MEASUREMENT MORE BENEFICIAL THAN TUMOR DIAMETER IN BREAST CANCER STAGING?
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Nilüfer Yazgan Yıldırım, Ahmet Serkan İlgün, Ebru Şen Oran, Yücel Yankol, Sibel Gürdal Özkan, Doğan Gönüllü, Gürsel Remzi Soybir, and Ferda Nihat Köksoy
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breast ,cancer staging ,tumor volume ,prognosis ,Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens ,RC254-282 ,Medicine - Abstract
Purpose: The aim of the present study is to determine whether or not tumor volume can be used instead of tumor diameter in breast cancer staging and the relation between tumor volume and survival.Patients and method: The preoperative tumor sizes and the results of postoperative pathological staging of 194 patients who underwent surgery with the diagnosis of T1-3,N0-3,M0 breast cancer and also fulfilled the study criteria were retrospectively evaluated. The tumor volume was estimated by using the tumor diameter and the width which were specified according to the highest value at the mammographic and ultrasonographic examinations and using the tumor depth which was designated according to the ultrasonographic measurement. The tumor volumes were categorized as, ≤4cm3, 4.1- 14 cm3, 14.1-32 cm3 ve ≥32.1 cm3 . (≤23, >23 - ≤33, >33 - ≤43 ve >43).Results: The tumor volume had better correlation than the tumor diameter with the classification of lymph node, (R=0.45; p
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- 2012