Axillary staging for breast cancer during pregnancy: feasibility and safety of sentinel lymph node biopsy.
Sileny N HanF AmantE H CardonickS LoiblF A PeccatoriO GheysensC A SangalliV NekljudovaK Dahl SteffensenM Mhallem GziriC P SchröderC A R LokA VerestP NevenA SmeetsG PruneriM CremonesiO Gentilininull nullPublished in: Breast cancer research and treatment (2017)
SLN biopsy during pregnancy has a comparably low axillary recurrence rate as in nonpregnant women. Therefore, this method can be considered during pregnancy instead of standard ALND for early-stage, clinically node-negative breast cancer.