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Accordingly, c- myc amplification appears to be an independent prognostic marker, which has greater predictive power than does oestrogen receptor status and tumour grade.
Tumor stage is the most significant prognostic parameter for 5-year survival, but even patients with non-small cell lung cancer (non-SCLC) in pathologic stage IA disease (a tumor of less than 3 cm diameter located in one lobe of the lung and more than 2 cm from the carina without visceral pleural involvement, atelectasis, or pneumonitis, and absence of metastatic spread to regional lymph nodes) have a 33% chance of recurrence within 5 years after complete surgical resection (lobectomy with mediastinal lymph node dissection) [ 2].
As many as 30% of patients with breast cancer who have undergone curative surgery and show no evidence of locoregional or distant disease still have recurrent disease over 5-10 years [ 1 2 ] . Some of these treatment failures may be attributed to residual disease in the breast or axillary lymph nodes [ 3 ] . The limitation of routine histopathologic examination of the tumor margins and the dissected lymph node specimen is well known [ 4 ] . Contemporary methods of detection, including computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, bone scintigraphy and flow cytometry, all have limited sensitivity and specificity [ 5 6 ] . Micrometastases can be found by immunohistochemistry or polymerase chain reaction in 10-30% of the patients previously deemed free of disease by conventional histological methods [ 7 8 ] . The prognostic importance of micrometastases found with these sensitive methods are now being evaluated [ 9 10 11 ] .
Ruschhaupt and colleagues comment that “the literature on the induction of prognostic profiles from microarray studies is a methodological wasteland.”
The results show that Met can be detected in the axillary drainage, and although the number of patients was not high, Met is associated with unfavorable prognostic factors.
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