… the axilla in patients with early stage invasive breast cancer. The strategy for identifying
axillary metastases before surgery varies among institutions, ranging from imaging only patients …

… eligible trial: the number of patients randomly assigned to treatment and analyzed per arm,
… the number of positive nodes from those having an acceptable axillary staging procedure. …

… the accuracy of axillary staging in breast cancer and can identify significantly more patients
with … Axillary lymphadenectomy (ALND) for patients with potentially curable carcinoma of the …

… not proven to be accurate in the identification of axillary nodal metastasis (10, 11). … axillary
staging would represent an important advance in the management of breast cancer patients…

… Axillary ultrasound (AUS) is a standard procedure in the preoperative clinical identification
of axillary … about local and systemic therapy for patients with early breast cancer (EBC). But …

… axillary staging of patients with breast cancer who have a clinically and radiologically negative
axilla … node-positive patients who can proceed directly to axillary lymph node dissection (…

… Before the start of neoadjuvant treatment, tumor size was assessed with … the breast tumor
were performed to determine the histological subtype and receptor status. Axillary staging was …

… changing paradigms of axillary staging in breast cancer from emphasis on anatomic staging
to tumor biology, and the evolving role of axillary ultrasound, bringing patients less invasive …

… in the elderly population is challenging due to different breast cancer biology and limited …
whether the omission of axillary staging impacts breast cancer outcomes in elderly patients. …

… of ten or more axillary lymph nodes led to even better staging. Patients and methods …
Therefore, even with modern surgical techniques a low risk of false-negative axillary staging is …