Basal Subtype, as Approximated by Triple-Negative Phenotype, is Associated with Locoregional Recurrence in a Case–Control Study of Women with 0–3 Positive Lymph Nodes After Mastectomy
Khan AJ, Milgrom SA, Barnard N, Higgins SA, Moran M, Shahzad H, Kim S, Goyal S, Al-Faraj F, Kirstein L, Kearney T, Haffty BG. Basal Subtype, as Approximated by Triple-Negative Phenotype, is Associated with Locoregional Recurrence in a Case–Control Study of Women with 0–3 Positive Lymph Nodes After Mastectomy. Annals Of Surgical Oncology 2014, 21: 1963-1968. PMID: 24562930, PMCID: PMC5723128, DOI: 10.1245/s10434-014-3512-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositive lymph nodesPostmastectomy RTTriple-negative phenotypeLymph nodesBasal subtypeHigher LRROdds ratioResultsOn univariate analysisEvidence of diseaseUse of chemotherapyCase-control studyCohort of womenConditional logistic regressionParaffin-embedded tissue blocksLocoregional recurrencePositive nodesBiologic subtypeUnivariate analysisTN phenotypeER-PRConclusionsOur dataMastectomy specimenTissue microarrayLower oddsMastectomy