Open AccessRelationship Between Breast and Axillary Pathologic Complete Response According to Clinical Nodal Stage: A Nationwide Study From Korean Breast Cancer Society
Author(s) -
Jai Min Ryu,
Hyung-Jin Choi,
Eun Hwa Park,
Ji Young Kim,
Young Joo Lee,
Seho Park,
Jeeyeon Lee,
Heung Kyu Park,
Seok Jin Nam,
Seok Won Kim,
Jun-Hee Lee,
Jeong Eon Lee
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of breast cancer/journal of breast cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2092-9900
pISSN - 1738-6756
DOI - 10.4048/jbc.2022.25.e17
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , stage (stratigraphy) , disease , oncology , chemotherapy , complete response , neoadjuvant therapy , cancer , paleontology , biology
We evaluated the relationship between breast pathologic complete response (BpCR) and axillary pathologic complete response (ApCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) according to nodal burden at presentation. As the indications for NACT have expanded, clinicians have started clinical trials for the omission of surgery from the treatment plan in patients with excellent responses to NACT. However, the appropriate indications for axillary surgery omission after excellent NACT response remain unclear.