Open AccessSignificance of a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy in staging for distant metastasis in breast cancer: are current guidelines relevant?
Author(s) -
Tje Hubbard,
Charlotte Ives
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.39
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1478-7083
pISSN - 0035-8843
DOI - 10.1308/rcsann.2020.0065
Subject(s) - medicine , sentinel lymph node , radiology , breast cancer , biopsy , axilla , guideline , metastasis , radiological weapon , cancer , pathology
In breast cancer, early identification of distant metastasis changes management. Current guidelines recommend radiological staging in patients with a preoperative positive axilla; no guidelines address a preoperative negative axilla with subsequent positive sentinel lymph node biopsy. This study investigates whether current guidelines adequately identify distant metastasis in a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy population that had radiological staging.