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Breast Cancer - Arab Medical Association Against Cancer

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Prognostic factors 218Table 14.7. Relative Importance of Prognostic Factors In <strong>Breast</strong> CarcinomasFactors Poor Increase Good response totreatmentsurvival of localrecurrenceHormonal ChemotherapyClinical Size (High) ++ + - -Pathological Lymph-node involvement +++ - - -Histoprognostic grade (high) +++ + + (+)Anatomic size (high) + + - -Extensive intraductal component +++(EIC+)* ++Involvement of margins*Biological Hormonal receptor + - -DNA aneuploidy +/- (+) +S-phase fraction (high) ++ (-) +++c-erbB-2 ++/- (-)p53 ++ (-)Angiogenesis (high) ++( ) data have to be confirmed;* conservative treatment

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