Axillary lymph node dissection in triple-negative or HER2-positive breast cancer patients with clinical N2 achieving pathological complete response after neoadjuvant therapy : Is it necessary?

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AIM: This study aims to identify suitable candidates for axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) or targeted axillary dissection (TAD) among clinical N2 (cN2) triple-negative (TN) or HER2 positive (HER2+)breast cancer patients following neoadjuvant therapy(NAT).

BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial axillary burden in cN2 breast cancer patients, high pathological response rates can be achieved with NAT in TN or HER2+ subtypes, thus enabling potential downstaging of axillary surgery.

METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on data from the CSBrS-012 study, screening 709 patients with initial cN2, either HER2+ or TN subtype, from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2020. The correlation between axillary pathologic complete response (pCR) (yPN0) and breast pCR was examined.

RESULTS: Among the 177 cN2 patients who achieved breast pCR through NAT, 138 (78.0 %) also achieved axillary pCR. However, in the 532 initial clinical N2 patients who did not achieve breast pCR, residual axillary lymph node metastasis persisted in 77.4 % (412/532) of cases. The relative risk of residual axillary lymph node metastasis in patients who did not achieve breast pCR was 12.4 (8.1-19.1), compared to those who did achieve breast pCR, P < 0.001.

CONCLUSION: For cN2 TN or HER2+ breast cancer patients who achieve breast pCR following NAT, consideration could be given to downstaging and performing an axillary SLNB or TAD.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:73

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Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) - 73(2024) vom: 01. Feb., Seite 103671

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Englisch

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Guo, Xuhui [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiao [VerfasserIn]
Gong, Xilong [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jia [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Hao [VerfasserIn]
Jiao, Dechuang [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Rui [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Yi [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Hongjian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yunjiang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jianguo [VerfasserIn]
Mao, Dahua [VerfasserIn]
He, Jianjun [VerfasserIn]
Yu, Zhigang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Yinhua [VerfasserIn]
Fu, Peifen [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jiandong [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Hongchuan [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Zuowei [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Xingsong [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Zhongwei [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Kejin [VerfasserIn]
Song, Ailin [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Fan, Zhimin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zhenzhen [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 27.02.2024

Date Revised 27.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1016/j.breast.2024.103671

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NLM367681250