Impact of American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0011 and National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B-32 trial results on surgeon practice in the Pacific Northwest

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 618-622

  Massimino, Kristen P ^a   Hessman, Crystal J ^a   Ellis, Michelle C ^a   Naik, Arpana M ^a   Vetto, John T ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0011; Completion axillary dissection; Immunohistochemistry; National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project B 32; survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; COMPLETION AXILLARY LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SURGEON;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84859915758     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.12.015     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Fisher B, Montague E, Redmond C, et al. Comparison of radical mastectomy with alternative treatments for primary breast cancer. A first report of results from a prospective, randomized, clinical trial. Cancer 1977;39(suppl 6):2827-39.
2. Guiliano AE, Hunt KK, Ballman KV, et al. Axillary dissection vs no axillary dissection in women with invasive breast cancer and sentinel node metastasis. A randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2011;305:569-75.
3. Weaver DL, Ashikaga T, Krag DN, et al. Effect of occult metastases on survival in node negative breast cancer. N Engl J Med 2011;364:412-21.
4. Fisher B. From Halsted to prevention and beyond: advances in the management of breast cancer during the twentieth century. Eur J Cancer 1999;25:1963-73. (Pubitemid 30026218)
5. Caudle AS, Hunt KK, Kuerer HM, et al. Multidisciplinary considerations in the implementation of the findings from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Z0011 study: A practice changing trial. Ann Surg Oncol 2011;18:2407-12.
6. Dickson-Witmer D, Bleznak AD, Kennedy JS, et al. Breast cancer care in the community: challenges, opportunities, and outcomes. Surg Oncol Clin N Am 2011;20:555-80.
7. Hessman CJ, Naik AM, Kearney M, et al. Comparative validation of online nomograms for predicting nonsentinel lymph node status in sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer. Arch Surg 2011;146:1035-40.
8. Lucci A, McCall L, Beitsch P, et al. Surgical complications associated with sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) plus axillary lymph node dissection compared with SLND alone in the Amereican College of Surgeons Oncology Group Trial Z011. J Clin Oncol 2007;25;3657-63. (Pubitemid 47372604)
9. Tuttle T, Jarosek S, Habermann E, et al. Omission of radiation therapy after breast conserving surgery in the United States. A population based analysis of clinicopathologic factors. Cancer 2011. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.liboff.ohsu.edu/doi/10.1002/cncr.26505/pdf. Accessed September 26, 2011.
10. Alonso-Basanta M, Ko J, Babcock M, et al. Coverage of axillary lymphd nodes in supine vs. prone breast radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009;73:745-51.
11. Rosen PP, Saigo PE, Braun DW, et al. Axillary micro- and macrometastases in breast cancer: prognostic significance of tumor size. Ann Surg 1981;194:585-91. (Pubitemid 11026444)
12. Tan LK, Giri D, Hummer AJ, et al. Occult axillary node metastases in breast cancer are prognostically significant: results in 368 node-negative patients with 20-year follow-up. J Clin Oncol 2008;26:1803-9.
13. Schroen AT, Brenin DR. Breast cancer treatment beliefs and influences among surgeons in areas of scientific uncertainty. Am J Surg 2010;199:491-9.