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For patients demonstrating ypN1 disease on SLNB following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, is it reasonable to proceed with regional RT in lieu of AxLND outside of the ALLIANCE A011202 trial?

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Radiation Oncology · Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Ideally these patients should go on the Alliance A011202 trial or have a full dissection as the current standard. AMAROS and other studies clearly have shown that radiation to the axilla is highly effective compared to axillary dissection for patients with a positive sentinel node at initial diagnos...

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