Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients With Node-Positive Breast Cancer: The ACOSOG Z1071 (Alliance) Clinical Trial

IMPORTANCE Sentinel lymph node (SLN) surgery provides reliable nodal staging information with less morbidity than axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for patients with clinically node-negative (cN0) breast cancer. The application of SLN surgery for staging the axilla following chemotherapy for wom...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2013-10, Vol.310 (14), p.1455-1461
Main Authors: Boughey, Judy C, Suman, Vera J, Mittendorf, Elizabeth A, Ahrendt, Gretchen M, Wilke, Lee G, Taback, Bret, Leitch, A. Marilyn, Kuerer, Henry M, Bowling, Monet, Flippo-Morton, Teresa S, Byrd, David R, Ollila, David W, Julian, Thomas B, McLaughlin, Sarah A, McCall, Linda, Symmans, W. Fraser, Le-Petross, Huong T, Haffty, Bruce G, Buchholz, Thomas A, Nelson, Heidi, Hunt, Kelly K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Axilla
Biological and medical sciences
Biopsy
Breast cancer
Breast Neoplasms - drug therapy
Breast Neoplasms - pathology
Breast Neoplasms - surgery
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
Clinical trials
Colloids
Coloring Agents
False Negative Reactions
Female
General aspects
Gynecology. Andrology. Obstetrics
Humans
Lymph Node Excision
Lymph Nodes - pathology
Lymphatic Metastasis
Lymphatic system
Mammary gland diseases
Mastectomy
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Multiple tumors. Solid tumors. Tumors in childhood (general aspects)
Neoadjuvant Therapy
Radiopharmaceuticals
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy - methods
Surgery
Tumors
Women
Young Adult
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