| Autor: |
Tingting Yan, Wenjin Yin, Liheng Zhou, Yiwei Jiang, Zhenzhou Shen, Zhimin Shao, Jinsong Lu |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2010 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, Vol 5, Iss 12, p e15903 (2010) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
| DOI: |
10.1371/journal.pone.0015903 |
| Popis: |
BACKGROUND: Postoperative fever may serve as an indirect sign to reflect the alterations of the host milieu caused by surgery. It still remains open to investigation whether postoperative fever has a bearing on prognosis in patients with lymph node negative breast cancers. METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of 883 female unilateral patients with lymph node negative breast cancer. Fever was defined as an oral temperature ≥38 in one week postoperation. Survival curves were performed with Kaplan-Meier method, and annual relapse hazard was estimated by hazard function. FINDINGS: The fever patients were older than those without fever (P |
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