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. 1984 Dec;50(6):771–777. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1984.255

Prognostic significance of peritumoral vascular invasion in breast cancer.

R Bettelheim, H G Penman, H Thornton-Jones, A M Neville
PMCID: PMC1977004  PMID: 6498073

Abstract

A prospective study of 232 patients with primary invasive breast cancer (UICC Stages I, II and III) and histologically confirmed axillary node status was carried out to assess the prognostic significance of several readily available clinical and pathological characteristics. In addition to the recognised utility of tumour size and axillary lymph node status, the presence or absence of cohesive clumps of malignant cells in peritumoral vascular spaces (both lymphatic and blood vessels) was found to be prognostically important.

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