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FRONTIERS IN ONCOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.669890
Keywords
breast neoplasm; lymph node metastasis; sentinel lymph node biopsy; neoplasm staging; nomograms
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- CAPES (Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)
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The sentinel lymph node biopsy is a safe and efficient approach compared to total axillary lymph node dissection for initial patients. A SEER-based study showed that having two positive lymph nodes is a poor prognostic factor similar to pN2 patients. Positive-to-analyzed LN proportion and negative LN margin are strong prognostic factors for survival.
Purpose Sentinel-lymph-node (SLN) biopsy (SLB) is an efficient and safe axillary surgical approach with decreased morbidity than total axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in initial patients (T1-T2). Current guidelines strongly suggest avoiding completion of ALND in patients with one or two positive SLNs that will be submitted to whole-breast radiation therapy, but must be done when three SLNs are affected. Methods We performed a SEER-based study with breast invasive ductal carcinoma patients treated between 2010 and 2015. Optimal cutoffs of positive LNs predictive of survival were obtained with ROC curves and survival as a continuous variable. Bias was reduced through propensity score matching. Cox regression was employed to estimate prognosis. Nomograms were constructed to analyze the predictive value of clinicopathological factors for axillary burden. Results Of 43,239 initial patients that had one to three analyzed LNs, only 425 had two positive LNs and matched analysis demonstrated no survival difference versus pN2 patients [HR: 0.960 (0.635-1.452), p = 0.846]. The positive-to-analyzed LN proportion demonstrated a strong prognostic factor for a low rate (1 positive to & LE;1.5 analyzed) [HR = 1.567 (1.156-2.126), p = 0.004], and analysis derived from the results demonstrated that a negative LN margin improves survival. Nomograms shows that tumor size is the main factor of axillary burden. Conclusion Macrometastasis of two LNs is a poor prognostic factor, similar to pN2, in SLNB (-like) patients; more extensive studies including preconized therapies must be done in order to corroborate or refute the resistance of this prognostic difference in patients with two macrometastatic lymph nodes within few resected.
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