Omitting Axillary Dissection in Breast Cancer with Sentinel-Node Metastases.
Jana de BonifaceTove Filtenborg TvedskovLisa RydénRobert SzulkinToralf ReimerThorsten KühnMichalis KontosOreste D GentiliniRoger Olofsson BaggeMalin SundDan LundstedtMatilda AppelgrenJohan AhlgrenSophie NorenstedtFuat CelebiogluHelena SackeyInge Scheel AndersenUte HoyerPer F NymanEva Vikhe PatilElinore WieslanderHenrik Dahl NissenSara AlknerYvette AnderssonBirgitte V OffersenLeif BergkvistJan FrisellPeer Christiansennull nullnull nullPublished in: The New England journal of medicine (2024)
The omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection was noninferior to the more extensive surgery in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer who had sentinel-node macrometastases, most of whom received nodal radiation therapy. (Funded by the Swedish Research Council and others; SENOMAC ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02240472.).