Diagnostic performance of image-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy after neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer: prospective pilot study.

Elisabetta M C RossiAlessandra InventoFilippo PesapaneEleonora PaganVincenzo BagnardiNicola FuscoKonstantinos VenetisValeria DominelliChiara TrentinEnrico CassanoLaura GilardiManuelita MazzaMatteo LazzeroniFrancesca De LorenziPietro CaldarellaAlessandra De ScalziAntonia GirardiClaudia SangalliLuca AlbertiVirgilio SacchiniViviana GalimbertiPaolo Veronesi

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2022)

VABB in patients with an iCR might be a promising method to select patients for de-escalation of surgical treatment in triple-negative or HER2-positive breast cancer. The present results support such an approach and should inform the design of future trials on de-escalation of surgery.

Keyphrases

positive breast cancer
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
minimally invasive
newly diagnosed
open label
rectal cancer
peritoneal dialysis
lymph node
prognostic factors
coronary artery bypass
squamous cell carcinoma
clinical trial
current status
locally advanced
radiation therapy