Targeted axillary dissection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for highly selective patients with initial cN1 breast cancer: A single-center prospective trial
Xiuchun Chen,
Zhenduo Lu,
Chengzheng Wang
et al.
Abstract:Background:
Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is gradually accepted as the standard of care in breast cancer patients with down-staged axillary disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). However, it is still difficult to precisely define pre-NAC clinical node-positive (cN1) and post-NAC clinical node-negative (ycN0). This prospective single-center trial was designed to evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of standard targeted axillary dissection (TAD) after NAC in highly selective pre-NAC cN1 pa… Show more
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