… et al.5 required pretreatment axillary staging of patients with LABC who were candidates
for neoadjuvant chemotherapy to determine the pathologic axillary response to treatment. …

… Based on these findings, the authors concluded that SLNB after NC is as accurate for axillary
staging as SLNB prior to chemotherapy, and that SLNB after NC results in fewer positive …

… Traditional staging of the axilla in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) has
… and the axilla. Although it is well documented that neoadjuvant chemotherapy reduces the …

… for axillary staging in patients with biopsy-proven nodal metastases.1 While early reports
suggested that SLNB may be technically feasible following NAC, its accuracy remained in …

… Validation of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer women N1-N2 with complete
axillary response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Multicentre study in Tarragona Validacion de …

… clinically node-negative following NAC and underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy with or
without localization-guided excision of any clipped axillary lymph nodes28 for axillary staging. …

… AUS allows selection of patients with the greatest likelihood of nodal response to benefit from
SLN surgery for axillary staging. These are additional data that can be used in the decision-…

… This study also demonstrated no increase in regional recurrence rates in patients undergoing
axillary staging post-NAC, confirming the safety of this approach. In patients receiving NAC…

… receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). We studied variation in the timing of axillary
staging in breast cancer patients who received NAC and the subsequent axillary treatment in …

… Contrary to this study, we did not choose to prove the status of lymph nodes prior to NC but
in the multiple axillary staging methods, we preferred the gold standard evaluation of ALND […