Cutler S J, Myers M H
Biometry Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20014, USA.
J Natl Cancer Inst. 1967 Aug;39(2):193-207.
A series of 2,039 cases of breast cancer in women under 65 years of age was used for an empirical-statistical approach to the classification of extent of disease. Comparisons were made with the staging recommendations of an American and an international committee. The uses for such classification schemes by the clinician in assessing prognosis and deciding on a treatment plan are considered. It is suggested that the same treatment plan is not necessarily appropriate for all patients falling into the same prognostic class, because there is marked variation in the clinical characteristics of patients within a class.
对2039例65岁以下女性乳腺癌患者进行了一系列研究，采用经验统计方法对疾病范围进行分类。并与美国和一个国际委员会的分期建议进行了比较。还考虑了临床医生在评估预后和制定治疗方案时使用此类分类方案的情况。研究表明，对于处于同一预后类别的所有患者，不一定都适用相同的治疗方案，因为同一类别内患者的临床特征存在显著差异。
