Email this article Can any breast skin thickening be staged as T4?
- Authors: Amosova V.A.1, Petrovskii A.V.1,2, Karpova M.S.1, Ponedel’nikova N.V.1, Frolova M.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology
- Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)
- Issue: Vol 23, No 3 (2021)
- Pages: 466-469
- Section: CLINICAL ONCOLOGY
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1815-1434/article/view/64964
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.26442/18151434.2021.3.200907
- ID: 64964
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Data analysis showed that many diagnostic issues in breast cancer patients with skin involvement are not systematized. In some cases when the tumor is small and skin involvement symptoms are minimal ("local" skin edema), should this category of patients be considered as patients with non-inflammatory skin involvement breast cancer? Current research confirms the presence of skin involvement has much less prognostic value than, for example, tumor size or lymph node metastases, and the surgical term "unresectable" may not always be adequate. In addition, clinical data often do not correspond to pathological data, which also complicates the staging and leads to "overtreatment" of such patients. Thus, further research is needed to identify categories of breast cancer (patients with skin involvement similar in prognosis, as well as to individualize approaches to local and systemic treatment.
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Viktoriia A. Amosova
Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology
Author for correspondence.
Email: amosova_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7207-631X
SPIN-code: 4726-5951
oncologist
Russian Federation, MoscowAleksandr V. Petrovskii
Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)
Email: amosova_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7514-280X
SPIN-code: 5441-2747
Scopus Author ID: 36949543000
Cand. Sci. (Med.)
Russian Federation, MoscowMarina S. Karpova
Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology
Email: amosova_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4945-982X
Graduate Student
Russian Federation, MoscowNataliia V. Ponedel’nikova
Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology
Email: amosova_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8047-3523
Cand. Sci. (Med.)
Russian Federation, MoscowMona A. Frolova
Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology
Email: amosova_va@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8149-0085
SPIN-code: 2809-7737
Cand. Sci. (Med.)
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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