Effects of the number of removed lymph nodes on survival outcome in patients with sentinel node-negative breast cancer

Table 3 Regional and distant tumor recurrences

Recurrences	SLN = 1 n. 328		SLN > 1 n. 752		P value
Recurrences	n.	%	n.	%	P value
Total	10	3.0%	18	2.4%	0.98
Free-disease patients	316	97.0%	724	97.6%
Recurrence sites
Local	6	1.8%	11	1.5%	0.35
Distant	4	1.2%	7	0.9%	0.17

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