Omission of Surgical Axillary Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Tubular Breast Cancer
Özkurt E, Wong S, Rhei E, Golshan M, Brock J, Barbie TU. Omission of Surgical Axillary Lymph Node Staging in Patients with Tubular Breast Cancer. Annals Of Surgical Oncology 2020, 28: 2589-2598. PMID: 33078312, DOI: 10.1245/s10434-020-09223-w.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInvasive ductal carcinomaER-positive invasive ductal carcinomasSurgical axillary stagingNational Cancer DatabaseTubular carcinomaLN involvementAxillary stagingOverall survivalDuctal carcinomaGrade IBreast cancerPositive invasive ductal carcinomaAxillary lymph node stagingKaplan-Meier survival curvesAxillary LN involvementFavorable breast cancerLN-positive diseasePropensity-matched analysisKaplan-Meier methodLymph node metastasisLymph node stagingTubular breast cancerLN diseaseNCDB cohortNodal involvement