Prognostic factors associated with breast cancer in Sancti Spiritus. January 2003 to January 2008

We analyzed 200 patients with the diagnosis of breast cancer over a period of 5 years (January 2003 to January 2008) who were diagnosed and treated at the specialist breast in the Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Sancti Spiritus. We studied the prognostic factors related to the primary tumor, the presence of metastatic nodes, the treatment provided, time and disease-free survival time. It was demonstrated that as increasing the size of primary tumor (T) and regional lymph node involvement (N), is more advanced clinical stage and axillary lymph node metastatic in surgical specimen condition that there is greater chance of recurrence occurs tumor, with a higher incidence of distant metastases and death occurs in these patients. (Author)