Is microscopic residual disease a risk factor in the primary treatment of breast cancer?
High-risk patients after mastectomy and patients with breast conserving surgery achieve a high local control rate with postoperative irradiation. After microscopically incomplete resection, there is an increased risk for local relapse.
In Chinese type 2 diabetic patients, metabolic syndrome does affect stroke occurrence with a higher stroke incidence among those with metabolic syndrome, but stroke occurrence seems to be better explained by other vascular risk factors than by metabolic syndrome.