Validation of the Skåne University Hospital nomogram for the preoperative prediction of a disease-free axilla in patients with breast cancer.

S MajidP-O BendahlL HussJ ManjerL RydénLooket Dihge

Published in: BJS open (2021)

The SUS nomogram provided acceptable power for predicting a disease-free axilla in the validation cohort. This tool may assist surgeons in identifying and counselling patients with a low risk of nodal metastasis on the omission of SLNB staging.

Keyphrases

lymph node
lymph node metastasis
sentinel lymph node
patients undergoing
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
early stage
radiation therapy
smoking cessation
locally advanced