Selective axillary node sampling and radiotherapy to the axilla in the management of breast cancer

Clinical Oncology : a Journal of the Royal College of Radiologists
J S TanguayI Fernando

Abstract

Axillary treatment for patients with early-stage breast cancer can be associated with considerable morbidity. Techniques, such as axillary node sampling (ANS) and, more recently, sentinel node biopsy, in combination with radiotherapy have the potential to reduce toxicity. A retrospective review of axillary treatment in patients with early-stage breast cancer treated at our institution between 1997 and 2003 was carried out to assess the outcome and morbidity of ANS in combination with radiotherapy. The treatment policy was to carry out four-node, Edinburgh-style ANS except in those cases with either palpably enlarged nodes or cytological confirmation of involvement or with clinically obvious node involvement at surgery when level 2 axillary node clearance (ANC) was carried out. Patients with involved nodes after ANS received postoperative axillary radiotherapy. In total, 381 patients were included, 331 received ANS and 50 received ANC. The median follow-up was 6.5 years and overall survival at 5 years was 84%. Pathologically involved nodes were found in 152/331 (50%) ANS patients and 43/50 (86%) ANC patients. The rate of local recurrence (breast or chest wall) at 5 years was 4% (95% confidence interval 1-17%) in the ANC group an...Continue Reading

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