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01-10-2009 | Oral presentation
Pathological features and patterns of metastatic disease in locally advanced inflammatory and non-inflammatory breast cancer
Authors:
MZ Mvere, SJ Tennant, AJ Evans, I Ellis, J James, M Shehat, S Chan
Published in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Special Issue 2/2009
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Excerpt
Locally advanced primary breast cancer (LAPC) is associated with a high risk of metastatic disease in spite of multimodality treatment. The aim of this study was to describe and compare the patterns of metastatic disease of the non-inflammatory (nIBC) and inflammatory (IBC) breast cancer subtypes as detected by staging computed tomography scan of the chest, abdomen and pelvis (CTCAP). …