Open AccessValidation of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center nomogram to detect non-sentinel lymph node metastases in a United Kingdom cohort
Author(s) -
Abdul Syed,
Sudhakar Eleti,
Vishwajeet Kumar,
Ahmad Alipour,
Harun Thomas
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
il giornale di chirurgia/il giornale di chirurgia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1971-145X
pISSN - 0391-9005
DOI - 10.11138/gchir/2018.39.1.012
Subject(s) - nomogram , medicine , breast cancer , sentinel node , cohort , axillary lymph node dissection , receiver operating characteristic , sentinel lymph node , cancer , lymph node , axilla , dissection (medical) , surgery , radiology , oncology
Axillary lymph node dissection, although associated with long-term morbidity, has been the standard of treatment for all nodepositive breast cancer patients. We assessed the risk prediction ability (validity) of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) nomogram for non-sentinel lymph node metastases and analysed the outcome of patients with sentinel node metastases.