Predictors of axillary lymph node metastases in patients with T1 breast cancer. A multivariate analysis.

Background: In T1 tumors, the reported incidence of lymph node metastases ranges from 21% to 35%. The authors analyzed the pathology parameters of T1 tumors for their association with the likelihood of axillary lymph node metastases.

Methods: Two hundred sixty-three patients with T1 unilateral invasive breast cancer were studied.

Gastrointestinal neoplasia in young HIV antibody-positive patients.

In a period of less than one year, the authors observed three young patients in whom primary gastrointestinal carcinomas developed. Two of them had acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the other one was human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibody-positive drug abuser. This report is intended to alert the medical profession to gastrointestinal malignancy as a possible complication of HIV infection.