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Ana Alicia Tejera Hernández1, Víctor Manuel Vega Benítez1, Juan Carlos Rocca Cardenas2
1Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Calle Juan de Quesada, 30, 35001, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain; General Surgery Department, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno Infantil, Av. Marítima del Sur, 35016, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain.
Background:
Assessment of local relapse in patients treated with surgery for breast cancer.
Materials And Methods:
This observational study included 673 patients treated with surgery for breast cancer between 2005 and 2010, who were monitored for a 7-year minimum follow-up period. The study was concluded on 2017 and yielded a total of 31 cases of local relapse.
Results:
4.6% of patients presented local relapse, most of them during the first 3 years of follow-up; 45% of patients with local relapse subsequently presented the disease at distant points. The association between the occurrence of local relapse and later onset of the disease at distant points was significant. The Kaplan-Meier survival analysis revealed that negative results for the presence of progesterone receptors, the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and the presence of the disease at distant points were factors that significantly influenced patient survival.
Conclusions:
Almost half of the patients suffering relapse subsequently present the disease at distant points. Certain factors increase the aggressiveness of the disease, predict higher risk of relapse and determine its prognosis.
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