Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy

  • Authors:
    • Yosuke Tanaka
    • Hironori Maeda
    • Yasuhiro Ogawa
    • Akihito Nishioka
    • Satoshi Itoh
    • Kei Kubota
    • Hironobu Ue
    • Kimiko Nakatani
    • Shiro Sasaguri
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  • Published online on: April 1, 2006     https://doi.org/10.3892/or.15.4.927
  • Pages: 927-931
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Abstract

A sentinel node biopsy (SNB) has been proved to be an accurate method to estimate the axillary lymph node status as a replacement for axillary lymph node dissection (AxLND) in patients with early breast cancer who have not been treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). We examined the feasibility and accuracy of performing SNB after NAC. Seventy breast cancer patients treated with NAC were enrolled in the current study during the period between March 2001 and June 2005. NAC performed preoperatively consisted of three to four times of CAF chemotherapy. Moreover, intra-arterial (subclavian artery and internal mammary artery) infusion of epirubicin and 5-fluorouracil was performed in addition to systemic CAF chemotherapy once to three times in patients with large breast tumors or bulky axillary lymph node metastases. The sentinel nodes were successfully identified in 63 out of 70 patients (identification rate: 90%). The mean number of sentinel nodes removed per patient was 1.5 (range 1-6). Of the 43 patients in whom AxLND was performed after the sentinel nodes were identified, 19 (44.2%) had positive sentinel nodes. In 8 of those 19 patients, the sentinel node was the only cancer positive lymph node. Among the 24 patients who had negative sentinel nodes it was found that one patient had a confirmed false negative result, thus yielding a false negative rate of 5%, and a sensitivity of 95%. There was no false negative patient who had a clinically negative lymph node status (N0) before NAC (17 patients), whereas the false negative rate was 6.3% in the subgroup of patients with a clinically positive lymph node status (N1, N2) before NAC (26 patients). As a result, SNB after NAC is thus considered to be able to effectively predict the axillary lymph node status in patients with a clinically negative lymph node status before NAC.

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Tanaka Y, Maeda H, Ogawa Y, Nishioka A, Itoh S, Kubota K, Ue H, Nakatani K and Sasaguri S: Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Oncol Rep 15: 927-931, 2006
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Tanaka, Y., Maeda, H., Ogawa, Y., Nishioka, A., Itoh, S., Kubota, K. ... Sasaguri, S. (2006). Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Oncology Reports, 15, 927-931. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.15.4.927
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Tanaka, Y., Maeda, H., Ogawa, Y., Nishioka, A., Itoh, S., Kubota, K., Ue, H., Nakatani, K., Sasaguri, S."Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy". Oncology Reports 15.4 (2006): 927-931.
Chicago
Tanaka, Y., Maeda, H., Ogawa, Y., Nishioka, A., Itoh, S., Kubota, K., Ue, H., Nakatani, K., Sasaguri, S."Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy". Oncology Reports 15, no. 4 (2006): 927-931. https://doi.org/10.3892/or.15.4.927