Overall, these results do not support ALND for all patients with ypN1mi on sentinel lymph node biopsy treated with nodal radiotherapy; however, tumour biology should be taken into account when considering ALND omission.
[Articles] Oncological outcomes with and without axillary lymph node dissection in patients with residual micrometastases after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (OPBC-07/microNAC): an international, retrospective cohort study
The Lancet Oncology | | Giacomo Montagna, Michael Alvarado, Sara Myers, Mary M Mrdutt, Susie X Sun, Varadan Sevilimedu, Andrea V Barrio, Astrid Botty van den Bruele, Judy C Boughey, Marissa K Boyle, Angelena Crown, Susan B Kesmodel, Tari A King, Henry M Kuerer, Elmore C Leisha, Tracy-Ann Moo, Anna Weiss, Austin D Williams, Priyanka Parmar, Brian Diskin, Callie Hlavin, Emilia J Diego, Natália Polidorio, Khaled Abdelwahab, Maggie Banys-Paluchowski, Christian Kurzeder, Martin Heidinger, Maite Goldschmidt, Alexandra Schulz, Jörg Heil, Güldeniz Karadeniz Cakmak, Nina Pislar, Margit Riis, Ipshita Prakash, Valentina Ovalle, M Umit Ugurlu, Gianluca Franceschini, Emelyanov Alexander Sergeevich, Javier Morales, Han-Byoel Lee, Viviana Galimberti, Sung Gwe Ahn, Jai Min Ryu, Mahmut Muslumanoglu, Neslihan Cabıoğlu, Tae-Kyung Robyn Yoo, Marie-Jeanne Vrancken Peeters, Massimo Ferrucci, Monica Morrow, Walter P Weber, microNAC Study Group
Topics: blood-cancer, chemotherapy, radiation, research