Determinants for non-sentinel node metastases in primary invasive breast cancer: a population-based cohort study of 602 consecutive patients with sentinel node metastases

Abstract Background Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is the standard procedure for axillary staging in patients with clinically lymph node negative invasive breast cancer. Completion axillary lymph node dissection (c-ALND) may not be necessary for all patients as a significant number of patients have no f...

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Main Authors: Shabaz Majid, Lisa Rydén, Jonas Manjer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-06-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5823-x