Inflammatory Breast Cancer - Prognosis Factors

Prognosis Factors

Estrogen and Progesterone receptor positive cases have better prognosis. Loss of heterozygosity, stage IV disease and appearance of symptoms resembling extensive inflammation are markers of poor prognosis.

Premenopausal cases have significantly worse prognosis. In postmenopausal cases lean women have significantly better prognosis than obese women.

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