Therefore, preoperative assessment of lymph node stage using imaging may have great clinical importance.
In this study, the disease-specific 5-year survival rate according to cervical lymph node stage was 93.2 % for the N0 (60 patients), 66.7 % for the N1 (13 patients), 0 % for the N2a (a patient), 50.0 % for the N2b (8 patients), 100.0 % for the N2c (2 patients), and by the log rank test results, cervical lymph node stage had significant effects on oral cancer prognosis (p = 0.000).
In sporadic breast cancer, absent or reduced BRCA1 expression was associated with high tumor grade, advanced lymph node stage, larger size, vascular invasion, negative estrogen receptor, negative progesterone receptor and poor outcome[27].
No significant correlation was found with tumour size, lymph node stage and IL-4 receptor expression.
Response can also be evaluated with the pathologic lymph node stage at surgery (pN-STAGE).
HGF and c-Met have a significant relevance to lymph node stage and distant metastasis.
The lymph node stage was determined by the number of positive nodes on the histology of the surgical specimen; lymph node stage 1 if no nodes were involved, lymph node stage 2 if three or less nodes were involved and lymph node stage 3 for four or more involved nodes.
Lymph node stage was determined from the results of axillary node sampling or dissection.
In our TNBC cohort, PELP1 protein expression showed positive correlations with lymph node stage.
No differences were seen for tumour size or lymph node stage.
The lymph node stage and the size of the primary tumour in millimetres were also recorded.
