Assessment of axillary node status by ultrasound after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with clinically node-positive breast cancer according to breast cancer subtype

Assessment of axillary node status by ultrasound after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with clinically node-positive breast cancer according to breast cancer subtype

Abstract The use of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for patients with cN1 breast cancer is controversial. Improvements of negative predictive value (NPV) by axillary ultrasound (AUS), which corresponds to the accurate prediction rate of node-negative status after...

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Main Authors: Yurina Maeshima, Takehiko Sakai, Akiko Ogiya, Yoko Takahashi, Yumi Miyagi, Yumi Kokubu, Tomo Osako, Yoshinori Ito, Shunji Takahashi, Shinji Ohno, Takayuki Ueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89738-8

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89738-8

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