A model for predicting non-sentinel lymph node metastatic disease when the sentinel lymph node is positive

A Pal, E Provenzano, SW Duffy, SE Pinder… - Journal of British …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background Women with axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN)-positive breast cancer usually
undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). However, not all patients with …

Predicting nonsentinel node status after positive sentinel lymph biopsy for breast cancer: clinicians versus nomogram

MC Specht, MW Kattan, M Gonen, J Fey… - Annals of surgical …, 2005 - Springer
Background With increasing frequency, breast cancer patients and clinicians are
questioning the need for completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in the setting of …

Validation and limitations of use of a breast cancer nomogram predicting the likelihood of non–sentinel node involvement after positive sentinel node biopsy

S Alran, Y De Rycke, V Fourchotte… - Annals of Surgical …, 2007 - Springer
Background Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for patients with positive sentinel lymph
nodes (SLNs) is currently under discussion in the literature. The breast cancer nomogram …

Validation of a nomogram to predict the risk of nonsentinel lymph node metastases in breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node biopsy: validation of the …

RFD Van la Parra, MF Ernst, JLB Bevilacqua… - Annals of surgical …, 2009 - Springer
Background Completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) remains the standard of
care for patients with disease-positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLN). However, approximately …

Predictive probability of four different breast cancer nomograms for nonsentinel axillary lymph node metastasis in positive sentinel node biopsy

AS Gur, B Unal, R Johnson, G Ahrendt… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Although completion axillary lymph node dissection (CALND) is the gold
standard for evaluating axillary status after identification of a positive sentinel lymph node …

A declining rate of completion axillary dissection in sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer patients is associated with the use of a multivariate nomogram

J Park, JV Fey, AM Naik, PI Borgen, KJ Van Zee… - Annals of …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To compare sentinel lymph node (SLN)-positive breast cancer patients who had
completion axillary dissection (ALND) with those who did not, with particular attention to …

Validation of a breast cancer nomogram for predicting nonsentinel lymph node metastases after a positive sentinel node biopsy

LA Lambert, GD Ayers, RF Hwang, KK Hunt… - Annals of surgical …, 2006 - Springer
Background Although completion lymph node dissection (CLND) is the standard of care for
breast cancer patients with sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastases, the SLN is the only node …

Comparison of two models for the prediction of nonsentinel node metastases in breast cancer

R Ponzone, F Maggiorotto, L Mariani… - The American journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: It is debated whether all patients with a positive sentinel node dissection
(SLND) should be submitted to axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). Models have been …

Use and limitations of a nomogram predicting the likelihood of non-sentinel node involvement after a positive sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients

L Kocsis, M Svébis, G Boross, M Sinkó… - The American …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
After a positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, some patients may be considered to have
a very low risk of non-SLN involvement and could be candidates for axillary sparing. The …

[HTML][HTML] New models and online calculator for predicting non-sentinel lymph node status in sentinel lymph node positive breast cancer patients

HE Kohrt, RA Olshen, HR Bermas, WH Goodson… - BMC cancer, 2008 - Springer
Background Current practice is to perform a completion axillary lymph node dissection
(ALND) for breast cancer patients with tumor-involved sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) …