{"title":"Women with clinically node negative breast cancer can safely avoid axillary surgery","authors":"Peter Sidaway","doi":"10.1038/s41571-024-00982-z","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Axillary nodal status provides important information on the prognosis of women with invasive breast cancer. However, the required sentinel lymph node biopsy sampling procedure and the associated risks of surgical complications have raised questions regarding the necessity of this procedure in women undergoing breast-conserving surgery for early stage disease. Now, data from INSEMA, a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial, confirm that this procedure can safely be avoided.</p><p>A total of 5,154 women with node-negative (on ultrasonography) T1 or T2 breast cancer were randomly assigned (1:4) to breast-conserving surgery without, versus with, axillary surgery. Invasive-disease-free survival (iDFS) was the primary end point.</p>","PeriodicalId":19079,"journal":{"name":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":81.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41571-024-00982-z","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ONCOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Axillary nodal status provides important information on the prognosis of women with invasive breast cancer. However, the required sentinel lymph node biopsy sampling procedure and the associated risks of surgical complications have raised questions regarding the necessity of this procedure in women undergoing breast-conserving surgery for early stage disease. Now, data from INSEMA, a prospective, randomized, non-inferiority trial, confirm that this procedure can safely be avoided.
A total of 5,154 women with node-negative (on ultrasonography) T1 or T2 breast cancer were randomly assigned (1:4) to breast-conserving surgery without, versus with, axillary surgery. Invasive-disease-free survival (iDFS) was the primary end point.
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