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Do you recommend sentinel node biopsy or ALND in cT4 or cT3 cN0 breast cancer patients?

ASCO 2016 guidelines specified that SLNB was not recommended for T3/T4 N0 patients but uptodate allows it.
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Radiation Oncology · David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
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The major trials comparing SLNB versus ALND (i.e., Table 1 from Lyman et al. 2014) either required tumors to be small (<= 2-3 cm), or had few patients with larger tumors (e.g., NSABP B-32: less than 2% with tumor > 4 cm; ALMANAC: 2% with tumor > 5 cm). Similarly, the major surgical trials comparing ...

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