The role of axillary dissection in operable breast cancer

Human Breast Cancer: Correlation of Relapse and Survival with Amplification of the HER-2/ neu Oncogene

1987 • 11,429 citations

Diseases of the Breast

1971 • 1,803 citations

Ten-Year Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing Radical Mastectomy and Total Mastectomy with or without Radiation

1985 • 1,384 citations

Relation of number of positive axillary nodes to the prognosis of patients with primary breast cancer. An NSABP update

1983 • 1,028 citations

EPIDERMAL-GROWTH-FACTOR RECEPTOR STATUS AS PREDICTOR OF EARLY RECURRENCE OF AND DEATH FROM BREAST CANCER

1987 • 881 citations

Neu-Protein Overexpression in Breast Cancer

1988 • 860 citations

Risk of lymphoedema following the treatment of breast cancer

1986 • 730 citations

Pathologic findings from the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project: prognostic significance of erbB-2 protein overexpression in primary breast cancer.

1990 • 602 citations

Expression of c-erbB-2 oncoprotein: a prognostic indicator in human breast cancer.

1989 • 592 citations

Prediction of Relapse or Survival in Patients with Node-Negative Breast Cancer by DNA Flow Cytometry

1989 • 571 citations

Cancer of the breast: Size of neoplasm and prognosis

1969 • 491 citations

Cathepsin D and Prognosis in Breast Cancer

1990 • 473 citations

The accuracy of clinical nodal staging and of limited axillary dissection as a determinant of histologic nodal status in carcinoma of the breast.

1981 • 422 citations

Prognostic importance of occult axillary lymph node micrometastases from breast cancers

1990 • 385 citations

Indicators of Prognosis in Node-Negative Breast Cancer

1990 • 348 citations

Carcinoma of the breast.

1975 • 339 citations

Costs and benefits of adjuvant therapy in breast cancer: a quality-adjusted survival analysis.

1989 • 333 citations

Confirmation of a prognostic index in primary breast cancer

1987 • 311 citations

Detection and significance of occult axillary node metastases in patients with invasive breast cancer

1978 • 269 citations

Controlled trial of tamoxifen as a single adjuvant agent in the management of early breast cancer

1988 • 247 citations

Radical mastectomy versus radical mastectomy plus internal mammary dissection. Ten year results of an international cooperative trial in breast cancer

1983 • 246 citations

Radical mastectomy versus radical mastectomy plus internal mammary dissection. Five-year results of an international cooperative study

1976 • 242 citations

Distribution of axillary node metastases by level of invasion. An analysis of 539 cases

1987 • 232 citations

Significance of occult metastases.A study of breast cancer

1961 • 231 citations

Discontinuous or “Skip” Metastases in Breast Carcinomae: Analysis of 1228 Axillary Dissections

1983 • 212 citations

Radiation therapy with or without primary limited surgery for operable breast cancer: A 20-year experience at the marseilles cancer institute

1982 • 200 citations

The efficacy of lower axillary sampling in obtaining lymph node status in breast cancer: A controlled randomized trial

1985 • 174 citations

Axillary lymph node metastases in breast cancer: preoperative detection with US.

1986 • 170 citations

Patients with early breast cancer benefit from effective axillary treatment

1985 • 169 citations

Extent of metastatic axillary involvement in 1446 cases of breast cancer.

1990 • 164 citations

The immunocytochemical detection of axillary micrometastases in breast cancer

1984 • 157 citations

Factors influencing local recurrence after excision and radiotherapy for primary breast cancer

1989 • 155 citations

Breast cancer: risk of axillary recurrence in node-negative patients following partial dissection of the axilla.

1988 • 155 citations

Local results of irradiation in the primary management of localized breast cancer

1972 • 149 citations

Complete axillary lymph node dissection for stage I-II carcinoma of the breast.

1986 • 148 citations

The axilla: not a no-go zone

1991 • 140 citations

Ten-year results of the treatment of primary operable breast carcinoma.A summary of 304 patients evaluated by the TNM system

1976 • 123 citations

THE INADEQUACY OF AXILLARY SAMPLING IN BREAST CANCER

1982 • 121 citations

The guy's trial of treatments of “early” breast cancer

1977 • 116 citations

Assessment of Axillary Lymph Node Status

1980 • 114 citations

Importance of Tumor Cells in Axillary Node Sinus Margins (‘Clandestine’ Metastases) Discovered by Serial Sectioning in Operable Breast Carcinoma

1988 • 114 citations

Carcinoma of the breast.Analysis of total lymph node involvement versus level of metastasis

1977 • 113 citations

Arm morbidity within a trial of mastectomy and either nodal sample with selective radiotherapy or axillary clearance

1989 • 113 citations

Contralateral breast cancer and other second malignancies in patients treated by breast-conserving therapy with radiation

1988 • 104 citations

The immunohistochemical detection of lymph node metastases from infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the breast

1987 • 104 citations

Radiation therapy of early carcinoma of the breast without mastectomy

1980 • 102 citations

Probability of false negative nodal staging in conjunction with partial axillary dissection in breast cancer

1985 • 98 citations

MECHANISM OF ACTION OF ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY IN EARLY BREAST CANCER

1986 • 94 citations

Patterns of Axillary Nodal Involvement in Breast Cancer Predictability of Level One Dissection

1982 • 92 citations

A Personal Experience with Halstedʼs Radical Mastectomy

1984 • 81 citations

IMMUNOSCINTIGRAPHY FOR DETECTION OF LYMPH NODE METASTASES FROM BREAST CANCER

1984 • 77 citations

Factors Influencing Survival and Prognosis in Early Breast Carcinoma (T1N0M0–T1N1M0): Assessment of 644 Patients with Median Follow-up of 18 Years

1990 • 74 citations

Relation between time-dose and local control of operable breast cancer treated by tumorectomy and radiotherapy or by radical radiotherapy alone

1978 • 70 citations

The DNA labelling index: A prognostic factor in node-negative breast cancer

1987 • 68 citations

EPILEPSY AND DRIVING

1974 • 67 citations

Survival Following Locoregional Recurrence After Breast Conservation Therapy for Cancer

1990 • 66 citations

Axillary lymphoscintigraphy by radioimmunodetection of carcinoembryonic antigen in breast cancer.

1979 • 62 citations

Prognosis of breast cancer with axillary node metastases after surgical treatment only

1987 • 62 citations

ENLARGED MASTECTOMY FOR BREAST CANCER

1971 • 58 citations

Consensus development conference: treatment of primary breast cancer.

1986 • 52 citations

Prognostic value of axillary lymphoscintigraphy in breast carcinoma patients.

1986 • 52 citations

Prognostic and therapeutic significance of pathological features of breast cancer.

1986 • 50 citations

Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

1986 • 49 citations

Node-negative minimal invasive breast cancer patients are not candidates for routine systemic adjuvant therapy

1990 • 41 citations

Location of breast carcinoma and prognosis.

1969 • 39 citations

Radical Mastectomy for Mammary Carcinoma

1969 • 39 citations

Immunolymphoscintigraphy for the detection of lymph node metastases from breast cancer.

1989 • 34 citations

The Reliability of Histologically Negative Axillary Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer

1988 • 34 citations

Evaluation of the prognostic value of triple node biopsy in early breast cancer

1990 • 31 citations

PREDICTION OF AXILLARY METASTASES IN BREAST CANCER BY LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY

1980 • 27 citations

LYMPH-NODE BIOPSY DURING SIMPLE MASTECTOMY

1975 • 25 citations

Selective avoidance of lymphatic irradiation in the conservative management of breast cancer

1984 • 24 citations

Simple mastectomy for early breast cancer and the behaviour of the untreated axillary nodes.

1977 • 23 citations

Lymphoscintigraphy cannot diagnose breast cancer

1981 • 11 citations

A randomized controlled trial of prophylactic cytotoxic chemotherapy in potentially curable breast cancer

1985 • 11 citations

Early stage breast cancer: Treatment options and results

1991 • 9 citations