Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to
assess the accuracy of different surgical axillary staging procedures compared with ALND …

Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer has the potential to achieve a
pathological complete response in up to 40 per cent of patients, converting disease that was …

BACKGROUND The use of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) following neoadjuvant
chemotherapy (NAC) in patients presenting with clinically positive lymph nodes remains …

Background Sentinel lymph node (SLN) dissection has been investigated after neoadjuvant
chemotherapy and has shown mixed results. Our objective was to evaluate SLN dissection …

Purpose Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is increasingly adopted in the therapy of breast
cancer (BC) patients with positive axillary nodes (cN+), but the reliability and feasibility of …

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has replaced conventional axillary lymph node
dissection (ALND) in axillary node-negative breast cancer patients. However, the use of …

Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is increasingly used to treat patients with
breast cancer, but the reliability of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) following …

Neo‐adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is used to facilitate radical surgery for initially
irresectable or locally advanced breast cancer. The indication for NAC has been extended to …

Introduction: Preoperative systemic therapy (PST) including neoadjuvant chemotherapy
(NAC) in breast cancer (BC) is used nowadays on a large scale especially in aggressive BC …

Purpose To conduct a systematic review to analyse the performance of the sentinel lymph-
node biopsy (SLNB) in women with node-positive breast cancer at diagnosis and node …