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ReviewBreast care (Basel, Switzerland)2018

What Is the Best Management of cN0pN1(sn) Breast Cancer Patients?

Jana de Boniface, Marcus Schmidt, Jutta Engel, Marjolein L Smidt, Birgitte Vrou Offersen, Toralf Reimer

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Review in Breast care (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jana de BonifaceDepartment of Surgery, Capio St. Göran's Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Marcus SchmidtDivision of Molecular Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Jutta EngelMunich Cancer Registry (MCR), Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE) at the University Hospital of Munich, Ludwig Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Marjolein L SmidtDivision of Surgical Oncology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Birgitte Vrou OffersenDepartment of Experimental Clinical Oncology & Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Toralf ReimerDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the majority of breast cancer patients are clinically node-negative (cN0) at diagnosis, 15-20% will have a metastatic sentinel lymph node (SLN, pN1(sn)). While a less radical approach regarding axillary surgery in cN0 patients with a positive SLN biopsy is advocated, the limitations of 5 published trials on axillary management in pN1(sn) are discussed intensely in the literature and support the performance of ongoing validation and extension trials, especially considering the lack of data in the setting of mastectomy. As locoregional radiotherapy has a significant effect on both recurrence and survival, a standardization of locoregional radiotherapy in the situation of SLN biopsy alone in pN1(sn) patients has to be defined in the future, and de-escalation trials should embrace a truly multidisciplinary approach. This is also of utmost importance considering the fact that high-volume nodal disease requires an intensified adjuvant chemotherapy strategy to which patients omitting axillary dissection cannot be stratified. Finally, there is mounting evidence that the therapeutic role of extensive axillary surgery in low-volume nodal disease is negligible, and multidisciplinary and translational efforts must be undertaken to individualize treatment in order to gain a reasonable balance between necessary staging information and unnecessary treatment-related morbidity.

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Axillary surgeryBreast cancerRadiotherapySentinel lymph node biopsy

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PMID30498417
PMCPMC6257152

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