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The authors study the 5 and 10 years survival of 1.058 cases of breast carcinoma treated between 1963 and 1981, classified according to the pTNM system. They suggest the convenience of eliminating some of the combinations in order to obtain a good correlation with prognostic criteria. The authors propose a modification of the TNM system with closer clinical significance.
A five-year survival study has been made on 383 patients with breast cancer belonging to the stages II and III of the TNM classification. After the results we consider advisable making a subdivision of these stages forming groups of patients having a similar prognosis in order to apply a statistical treatment to a more homogeneous group and set the treatment on a prognosis basis. In addition it has been considered convenient to transfer the patients classified as T3N0M0 of stage III to stage II attending to their prognosis. Finally, a TNM classification including said concepts is proposed.
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