Kabra Vedant, Aggarwal R, Vardhan S, Singh M, Khandelwal R, Jain S, Sahani S, Saini S, Deo N, Kaul R, Parikh P M, Aggarwal S
Department of Surgical Oncology, Manipal Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Department of Surgical Oncology, Medanta Hospital, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
South Asian J Cancer. 2018 Apr-Jun;7(2):132-136. doi: 10.4103/sajc.sajc_120_18.
Axillary lymph node involvement is a very important poor prognostic factor in the clinical staging and management of breast cancer patients. Traditionally, axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) has been used for determining the status of the axillary lymph nodes. More recently the sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) procedure has gained wider acceptance as the standard of care, having the advantage of being less invasivewhile providing good accuracy. This expert group used data from published literature, practical experience and opinion of a large group of academic oncologists to arrive at these practical consensus recommendations in regards with the use of the two different procedures and other issues in patients with early breast cancer for the benefit of community oncologists.
腋窝淋巴结受累是乳腺癌患者临床分期和治疗中一个非常重要的不良预后因素。传统上,腋窝淋巴结清扫术(ALND)一直用于确定腋窝淋巴结的状况。最近,前哨淋巴结活检(SLNB)程序作为一种标准治疗方法已被更广泛地接受,它具有侵入性较小的优点,同时具有较高的准确性。该专家组利用已发表文献的数据、实践经验以及一大批学术肿瘤学家的意见,就早期乳腺癌患者使用这两种不同程序及其他问题达成了这些实用的共识性建议,以造福社区肿瘤学家。