a multivariate analysis on 1195 patients with operable breast cancer and histologically positive axillary nodes treated by mastectomy and complete axillary dissection at the institut gustave-roussy between 1958 and 1978 suggests a beneficial effect of treatment of the internal mammary chain ( imc ) on the risks of death and distant metastasis for the patients with medial tumors .
C0024881
mastectomy
C0006141
mammary