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Axillary Lymph Node Ultrasound Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Biopsy-Proven Node-Positive Breast Cancer: Results from the SN FNAC Study.

The sentinel node biopsy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (SN FNAC) study has shown that in node-positive (N+) breast cancer, sentinel node biopsy (SNB) can be performed following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), with a low false negative rate (FNR = 8.4%). A secondary endpoint of the SN FNAC study was to determine whether axillary ultrasound (AxUS) could predict axillary pathological complete response (ypN0) and increase the accuracy of SNB.

Publication date
November 20, 2019
Principal Investigators
Morency D, Dumitra S, Parvez E, Martel K, Basik M, Robidoux A, Poirier B, Holloway CMB, Gaboury L, Sideris L, Meterissian S, Boileau JF
PubMed reference
Ann. Surg. Oncol. 2019;26(13):4337-4345
PubMed ID
31605348
Affiliation
Jewish General Hospital Segal Cancer Centre, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.