Increasing negative lymph node count predicts favorable OS and DSS in breast cancer with different lymph node-positive subgroups

• Xin Zhao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital,Tianjin,China

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• Jing Wei,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic Surgery, Xuzhou Central Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University, Xuzhou, China

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• Xiaoxin Li,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Xuzhou Central Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University, Xuzhou, China

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• Haochang Yang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation College of Clinical Medicine, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, China

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• Pei Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pei Wang, Susheng Cao

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cssxzsy@126.com (SC); 13495333289@qq.com (PW)

  Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Xuzhou Central Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University,Xuzhou, China

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• Susheng Cao

  Contributed equally to this work with: Pei Wang, Susheng Cao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cssxzsy@126.com (SC); 13495333289@qq.com (PW)

  Affiliation Department of Breast Surgery, Xuzhou Central Hospital, The Affiliated Xuzhou Hospital of Medical College of Southeast University,Xuzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1231-6232

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