The studies assessing the impact of PR factors on outcome of patients with BC symptoms have not reported WPRS levels. In the present study, a 25-year follow-up of patients with BC symptoms enables us to detect the 25-year outcome and to assess the RFS and OS versus WPRS approach using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazard models. The study showed that the PR variables detected with the WPR scale significantly correlate to the 25-year OS in patients with BC and 25-year OS in patients with BC symptoms. Therefore, the use of WPRS inventory detecting PR factors should be considered as a useful part of the diagnostic protocol of patients with BC symptoms.
ESKELINEN et al. (Wed,) studied this question.