Open Access<p>A New Model Incorporating Axillary Ultrasound After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy to Predict Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Invasive Breast Cancer</p>
Author(s) -
Kai Zhang,
Qing Zhu,
Danli Sheng,
Jiawei Li,
Cai Chang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cancer management and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 40
ISSN - 1179-1322
DOI - 10.2147/cmar.s239921
Subject(s) - medicine , sentinel lymph node , breast cancer , metastasis , oncology , axillary lymph node dissection , confidence interval , biopsy , radiology , cancer
Few models with good discriminative power have been introduced to predict the risk of non-sentinel lymph node (non-SLN) metastasis in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). We aimed to develop a new and simple model for predicting the probability of non-SLN metastasis in breast cancer and facilitate the selection of patients who could avoid unnecessary axillary lymph node dissection following NAC.