Preoperative Axillary Lymph Node Marking in Patients with Breast Cancer

Česká verzia

Authors: L. Dostálek; P. Šašková
Authors place of work: Gynekologicko-porodnická klinika, 1. LF a VFN v Praze
Published in the journal: Klin Onkol 2017; 30(6): 420-425
Category: Review
doi: https://doi.org/10.14735/amko2017420

Summary

Background:
Axillary dissection (AD) is an integral part of the surgical staging of breast cancer. This operation can be source of major long term complications, e. g., lymphedema. Reducing the radicality of these operations has been the subject of many clinical trials, especially those addressing the metastatic infiltration of axillary lymph nodes uncovered either by clinical staging or by sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy (when the clinical staging was negative). Exact clinical (mainly ultrasonographic) staging and marking of the lymph nodes detected by staging plays a key role in deciding the optimum clinical regimen.

Purpose:
Three possibilities were tested in clinical trials: The possibility of replacing the AD by radiotherapy in the case of tumorous infiltration of SLN, when clinical staging was negative; the possibility of omitting AD (in patients with positive clinical axillary staging) and replacing it with SLN biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy; and the possibility of marking lymph nodes in axilla that were suspected of infiltration at the time of clinical staging.

Results:
The studies showed clear evidence that avoiding AD was safe in oncology patients who showed infiltration of axillary SLN and negative clinical staging. Despite the high false negativity of using SLN biopsies in patients with a positive clinical staging after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, this false negativity could be reduced by using lymph node marking. By implementing these methods, it should be possible to define exactly the group of patients in whom complete pathological remission occurs after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

Key words:
breast neoplasms – axilla – lymph nodes

The authors declare they have no potential conflicts of interest concerning drugs, products, or services used in the study.

The Editorial Board declares that the manuscript met the ICMJE recommendation for biomedical papers.

Submitted:
17. 4. 2017

Accepted:
2. 7. 2017

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