TY - JOUR
T1 - Improved axillary evaluation following neoadjuvant therapy for patientswith node-positive breast cancer using selective evaluation of clipped nodes
T2 - Implementation of targeted axillary dissection
AU - Caudle, Abigail S.
AU - Yang, Wei T.
AU - Krishnamurthy, Savitri
AU - Mittendorf, Elizabeth A.
AU - Black, Dalliah M.
AU - Gilcrease, Michael Z.
AU - Bedrosian, Isabelle
AU - Hobbs, Brian P.
AU - Desnyder, Sarah M.
AU - Hwang, Rosa F.
AU - Adrada, Beatriz E.
AU - Shaitelman, Simona F.
AU - Chavez-Macgregor, Mariana
AU - Smith, Benjamin D.
AU - Candelaria, Rosalind P.
AU - Babiera, Gildy V.
AU - Dogan, Basak E.
AU - Santiago, Lumarie
AU - Hunt, Kelly K.
AU - Kuerer, Henry M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by a Cancer Center Support Grant from the National Institutes of Health (CA16672), the PH and Fay Eta Robinson Distinguished Professorship in Research Endowment (H.M.K.), and a National Institutes of Health P30 grant (CA016672) (B.P.H.), as well as funding from the Mike Hogg Foundation (A.S.C.) and an MD Anderson Clinical Innovator Award (A.S.C.).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 by American Society of Clinical Oncology.
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Purpose: Placing clips in nodes with biopsy-confirmed metastasis before initiating neoadjuvant therapy allows for evaluation of response in breast cancer. Our goal was to determine if pathologic changes in clipped nodes reflect the status of the nodal basin and if targeted axillary dissection (TAD), which includes sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) and selective localization and removal of clipped nodes, improves the false-negative rate (FNR) compared with SLND alone. Methods: A prospective study of patients with biopsy-confirmed nodal metastases with a clip placed in the sampled node was performed. After neoadjuvant therapy, patients underwent axillary surgery and the pathology of the clipped node was compared with other nodes. Patients undergoing TAD had SLND and selective removal of the clipped node using iodine-125 seed localization. The FNR was determined in patients undergoing complete axillary lymphadenectomy (ALND). Results: Of 208 patients enrolled in this study, 191 underwent ALND, with residual disease identified in 120 (63%). The clipped node revealed metastases in 115 patients, resulting in an FNR of 4.2% (95% CI, 1.4 to 9.5) for the clipped node. In patients undergoing SLND and ALND (n = 118), the FNR was 10.1% (95% CI, 4.2 to 19.8), which included seven false-negative events in 69 patients with residual disease. Adding evaluation of the clipped node reduced the FNR to 1.4% (95% CI, 0.03 to 7.3; P =.03). The clipped node was not retrieved as an SLN in 23% (31 of 134) of patients, including six with negative SLNs but metastasis in the clipped node. TAD followed by ALND was performed in 85 patients, with an FNR of 2.0% (1 of 50; 95% CI, 0.05 to 10.7). Conclusion: Marking nodes with biopsy-confirmed metastatic disease allows for selective removal and improves pathologic evaluation for residual nodal disease after chemotherapy.
AB - Purpose: Placing clips in nodes with biopsy-confirmed metastasis before initiating neoadjuvant therapy allows for evaluation of response in breast cancer. Our goal was to determine if pathologic changes in clipped nodes reflect the status of the nodal basin and if targeted axillary dissection (TAD), which includes sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) and selective localization and removal of clipped nodes, improves the false-negative rate (FNR) compared with SLND alone. Methods: A prospective study of patients with biopsy-confirmed nodal metastases with a clip placed in the sampled node was performed. After neoadjuvant therapy, patients underwent axillary surgery and the pathology of the clipped node was compared with other nodes. Patients undergoing TAD had SLND and selective removal of the clipped node using iodine-125 seed localization. The FNR was determined in patients undergoing complete axillary lymphadenectomy (ALND). Results: Of 208 patients enrolled in this study, 191 underwent ALND, with residual disease identified in 120 (63%). The clipped node revealed metastases in 115 patients, resulting in an FNR of 4.2% (95% CI, 1.4 to 9.5) for the clipped node. In patients undergoing SLND and ALND (n = 118), the FNR was 10.1% (95% CI, 4.2 to 19.8), which included seven false-negative events in 69 patients with residual disease. Adding evaluation of the clipped node reduced the FNR to 1.4% (95% CI, 0.03 to 7.3; P =.03). The clipped node was not retrieved as an SLN in 23% (31 of 134) of patients, including six with negative SLNs but metastasis in the clipped node. TAD followed by ALND was performed in 85 patients, with an FNR of 2.0% (1 of 50; 95% CI, 0.05 to 10.7). Conclusion: Marking nodes with biopsy-confirmed metastatic disease allows for selective removal and improves pathologic evaluation for residual nodal disease after chemotherapy.
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U2 - 10.1200/JCO.2015.64.0094
DO - 10.1200/JCO.2015.64.0094
M3 - Article
C2 - 26811528
AN - SCOPUS:84963541092
SN - 0732-183X
VL - 34
SP - 1072
EP - 1078
JO - Journal of Clinical Oncology
JF - Journal of Clinical Oncology
IS - 10
ER -