The Place of Extensive Surgery in Locoregional Recurrence and Limited Metastatic Disease of Breast Cancer: Preliminary Results

Table 2

Patients’ and tumours’ characteristics at the time of recurrence.

Age
(i) <50	2
(ii) 50	22
Premenopausal status	2
Menopausal status	22
Free interval between primary tumour and recurrence (months)
(i) Median duration	129
(ii) Range	24–242
Histological subtypes (24 tumours analyzed)		Grade
(i) Infiltrating ductal carcinoma	18	(i) Grade I: 0
(ii) Infiltrating lobular carcinoma	4	(ii) Grade II: 7
(iii) Mixed	2	(iii) Grade III: 17
Endocrine status
(i) ER (+)	22
(ii) PR (+)	20
(iii) ER and PR (−)	2
Node dissection (24 patients)
(i) Axillary retropectoral dissection	14
(ii) Mediastinal intramammary chain dissection	7
(iii) Node dissection not performed	3
(iv) Bone resection (sternal and rips resection)
(a) Yes	7
(b) No	17
Margin
(i) R0	21
(ii) R1	2
(iii) Stop surgery for unresectable lesion	1
(iv) Bone infiltration
(a) Yes (bone and rips)	7
(b) No	17
Staging of the disease
(i) Breast MRI	24
(ii) Abdominal and chest wall CT-scan	24
(iii) PET-CT	22/24
(iv) MRI of bone narrow	7
Morbidity of the surgery	2 limited necroses of flaps