Abstract:Background
The St. Gallen 2019 guidelines recommend omission of completion axillary lymph node dissection (cALND) in breast cancer patients with 1-2 sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases regardless of histopathology. Concurrently, adjuvant chemotherapy is endorsed for luminal A-like disease with ≥4 axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases. We aimed to estimate the proportion of patients with invasive lobular cancer (ILC) and invasive ductal cancer of no special type (NST) and 1-2 SLN metastases for whom cALND wou… Show more
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