Axillary Lymph Node Dissection is Associated with Improved Survival Among Men with Invasive Breast Cancer and Sentinel Node Metastasis.
Sophie H ChungSusanna W L de GeusGrant ShewmakerKelsey S RomatoskiFrederick T DrakeNaomi Y KoAndrea L MerrillAriel E HirschJennifer F TsengTeviah E SachsMichael R CassidyPublished in: Annals of surgical oncology (2023)
The results of this study suggest that among patients with early-stage MBC with limited sentinel lymph node metastasis, ALND is associated with superior survival compared with SLNB alone. These findings indicate that it may be inappropriate to extrapolate the results of the ACOSOG Z0011 and EORTC AMAROS trials to MBC.