Case List History Objectives Radiology Images Questions BREAST DISEASE Case #5 - A 48 year old woman with a L breast lump DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: 8.) What are factors that increase risk of recurrence? What are the two most important prognostic factors? Factors increasing risk of recurrence: large size, positive nodes and number of nodes positive, estrogen receptor negative, neu/HER2 expressed, high grade histology, aneuploidy, or lymphovascular invasion. The most important prognostic factors are the size of the lesion and the absolute number of lymph nodes involved.
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