Continued axillary sampling is unnecessary and provides no further information to sentinel node biopsy in staging breast cancer

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 707-714

  Gui, Gerald P H ^a   Joubert, D J ^a   Reichert, R ^a   Ward, A ^a   Lakhani, S ^a,c   Osin, P ^a   Nerurkar, A ^a   A'Hern, R ^a   Benson, K ^b   Underwood, S R ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axillary dissection; Axillary sample; Sensitivity; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 23944491893     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2005.04.014     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. T.F. Hack L. Cohen J. Katz L.S. Robson P. Goss Physical and psychological morbidity after axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer J Clin Oncol 17 1999 143-149
2. D. Ivens A.L. Hoe T.J. Podd C.R. Hamilton I. Taylor G.T. Royal Assessment of morbidity after complete axillary dissection Br J Cancer 66 1992 136-138
3. M.W. Kissin G. Querci della Rovere D. Easton G. Westbury Risk of lymphoedema following the treatment of breast cancer Br J Surg 73 1986 580-584
4. B. Cady M.D. Stone J.G. Schuler R. Thakur M.A. Warner P.T. Lavin The new era in breast cancer: Invasion, size and nodal involvement dramatically decreases as a result of mammographic screening Arch Surg 131 1996 301-308
5. I.S. Fentiman R.E. Mansel The axilla: Not a no-go zone Lancet 337 1991 221-223
6. A.E. Giuliano R.C. Jones M. Brennan R. Statman Sentinel lymphadenectomy in breast cancer J Clin Oncol 15 1997 2345-2350
7. U. Veronesi G. Paganelli V. Galimberti G. Viale S. Zurrida M. Bedoni et al. Sentinel node biopsy to avoid axillary dissection in breast cancer with clinically negative nodes Lancet; 349 1997 1864-1867
8. J.J. Albertini G.H. Lyman C. Cox T. Yeatman L. Balducci N. Ku et al. Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in patient with breast cancer JAMA 276 1996 1818-1822
9. F. Schwartz A.E. Giuliano U. Veronesi et al. Proceedings of the Consensus Conference on the role of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Carcinoma of the Breast 2001 Hum Pathol 33 2002 579-598
10. S.A. MacIntosh A.D. Purushotham Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer Br J Surg 85 1998 1347-1356
11. E.C. Hseueh R.R. Turner E.C. Glass R.J. Brenner M.B. Brenner A.E. Giuliano Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer J Am Coll Surg 71 1999 37-39
12. G. Cserni The reliability of sampling three to six nodes for staging breast cancer J Clin Pathol 52 1999 681-683
13. J. Ahlgren L. Holmberg J. Bergh G. Liljegren Five-node biopsy of the axilla: An alternative to axillary dissection of levels I-II in operable breast cancer Eur J Surg Oncol 28 2002 569-570
14. A.P.M. Forrest D. Everington C.C. McDonald R.J.C. Steele U. Chetty H.J. Stewart The Edinburgh trial of axillary sampling or clearance after mastectomy Br J Surg 82 1995 1504-1508
15. U. Chetty W. Jack R.J. Prescott C. Tyler A. Rodger Management of the axilla in patients with operable breast cancer treated by breast conservation: A randomised trial Br J Surg 87 2000 163-169
16. C.E. Cox S. Pendas J.M. Cox E. Joseph A.R. Shons T. Yeatman et al. Guidelines for sentinel node biopsy and lymphatic mapping of patients with breast cancer Ann Surg 227 1998 645-651
17. P.J. Borgstein R. Pijpers E.F. Comans P.J. van Diest R.P. Boom S. Meijers Sentinel lymph node biopsy: Guidelines and pitfalls lymphoscintigraphy and gamma probe detection J Am Coll Surg 186 1998 275-283
18. D. Krag D. Weaver T. Ashikaga F. Moffatt V.S. Klimberg C. Shriver et al. The sentinel node in breast cancer-a multicentre validation study N Engl J Med 339 1998 941-946
19. A.D. Hill K.N. Tran T. Akhurst H. Yeung S.D. Yeh P.P. Rosen et al. Identification and biopsy of the sentinel node in breast cancer Ann Surg 229 1999 528-535
20. D.N. Krag T.B. Julian S.P. Harlow D.L. Weaver T. Ashikaga J. Bryant et al. Phase III randomised trial comparing axillary resection with sentinel lymph node dissection: A description of the trial Ann Surg Oncol 11 2004 208S-210S
21. www.acosog.org/studies/synposes/20010.
22. S. Shivers C. Cox G. Leight D. Beauchamp P. Blumencranz M. Ross et al. Final results of the Department of Defence multicentre breast lymphatic mapping trial Ann Surg Oncol 9 2002 248-255
23. D. Clarke N.I. Khouji R.E. Mansel Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer: ALMANAC trial World J Surg 25 2001 819-822
24. K. Sato K. Tamaki H. Takeuchi H. Tsuda S. Kasuda S. Kusano et al. Management of the axilla in breast cancer: A comparative study between sentinel lymph node biopsy and four-node sampling procedure Jpn J Clin Oncol 31 2001 318-321
25. P.J. Tanis O.E. Nieweg J.W. Merkus J.L. Peterse B.B. Kroon False negative sentinel node procedure established through palpation of the biopsy wound Eur J Surg Oncol 26 2000 714-715
26. F.D. Rahusen R. Pijpers P.J. Van Diest R.P. Bleichrodt H. Torrenga S. Meijer The implementation of the sentinel node biopsy as a routine procedure for patients with breast cancer Surgery 128 2000 6-12
27. G. Cserni Estimating the overlap between sentinel lymph nodes and axillary samples in breast cancer Path Oncol Res 5 1999 129-133
28. F.J. Hoar P.S. Stonelake A prospective study of the value of axillary node sampling in addition to sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with breast cancer Eur J Surg Oncol 29 2003 526-531
29. R.D. Macmilllan D. Barbera D.J. Hadjiminas R.S. Rampaul A.H. Lee S.E. Pinder et al. Sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer may have little to offer four-node-samplers: Results of a prospective comparison study Eur J Cancer 37 2001 1076-1080
30. A. Goldhirsch W.C. Wood R.D. Gelber A.S. Coates B. Thurlimann H-J. Senn Meeting highlights: Updated international expert consensus on primary therapy of early breast cancer J Clin Oncol 21 2003 3357-3365
31. C. Carter C. Allen D. Henson Relation of tumour size, lymph node status, and survival in 24,740 breast cancer cases Cancer 63 1989 181-187