Novel Approach Shows Which Breast Cancer Patients May Develop Incurable Metastases

King's College London researchers say they may have discovered a method to identify lymph-node positive breast cancer patients most likely to develop incurable metastases and those who are less at risk. They published their study (“Histological scoring of immune and stromal features in breast and axillary lymph nodes is prognostic for distant metastasis in lymph node-positive breast cancers”) in  The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research .“The prognostic importance