Trends in axillary treatment for breast cancer patients undergoing sentinel lymph node biopsy as determined by a questionnaire from the Japanese Breast Cancer Society.
Shigeru ImotoChikako YamauchiYoshifumi KomoikeKoichiro TsugawaDaisuke YotsumotoNoriaki WadaTakayuki UenoMari S ObaTadahiko ShienSadatoshi SugaeHitoshi TsudaKimiyasu YoneyamaPublished in: Breast cancer (Tokyo, Japan) (2016)
Japanese breast physicians were conservative with respect to the omission of ALND in SLN-positive breast cancer, especially in the cases of SLN with macrometastases.