Can axillary lymphadenectomy be avoided in breast cancer with positive sentinel lymph node biopsy? Predictors of non-sentinel lymph node metastasis.
Sonia Martinez AlcaideCarlos Alberto Fuster DianaJulia Camps HerreroLaia Bernet VegueAntonio Valdivia PerezEugenio Sahuquillo ArceJuan Blas Ballester SapiñaPedro Juan Gonzalez NogueraJose Marcelo Galbis CaravajalPublished in: Archives of gynecology and obstetrics (2022)
Tumors smaller than 5 cm whose OSNA SLNB analysis is less than 12,000 copies/μl of CK19 mRNA have a low chance to develop additional affected lymph nodes, thus cALND can be avoided.