Sentinel lymph node surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with node-positive breast cancer: the ACOSOG Z1071 (Alliance) clinical trial.

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Published in JAMA on October 09, 2013

Authors

Judy C Boughey1, Vera J Suman, Elizabeth A Mittendorf, Gretchen M Ahrendt, Lee G Wilke, Bret Taback, A Marilyn Leitch, Henry M Kuerer, Monet Bowling, Teresa S Flippo-Morton, David R Byrd, David W Ollila, Thomas B Julian, Sarah A McLaughlin, Linda McCall, W Fraser Symmans, Huong T Le-Petross, Bruce G Haffty, Thomas A Buchholz, Heidi Nelson, Kelly K Hunt, Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Surgery to Remove the Sentinel Lymph Node and Axillary Lymph Nodes After Chemotherapy in Treating Women With Stage II, Stage IIIA, or Stage IIIB Breast Cancer | NCT00881361

ICG and Blue Dye Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients Underwent Neoadjuvant Therapy | NCT02869815

Sentinel Node Biopsy Before and/or After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer | NCT02031042

Registry Trial to Evaluate the Clinical Utilization of Targeted Axillary Dissection (TAD) | NCT03102307

Feasibility of Preoperative Tattooing of Percutaneously Biopsied Axillary Lymph Node: A Quasi Experimental Pilot Study | NCT03939598

Targeted Axillary Dissection (TAD) in Early-stage Node Positive Breast Cancer (TADEN) | NCT04671511

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