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How do your PMRT recommendations change with ITCs after neoadjuvant chemotherapy if they had SLNB only versus ALND in light of B51?

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Data such as from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center and the National Cancer Database (Wong et al., PMID 31228134), as well as the OPBC-05/ICARO study (Montagna et al., PMID 39509672), indicate that patients with isolated tumor cells in axillary nodes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (ypN0i...

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Montagna et al., PMID 39509672

This is the largest data set with ITC post-chemo highlighting the risk of additional disease and showing no impact of ALND on outcome.

75% got RNI and even though a small 4/5 axillary recurrence was seen in the group that didn’t have RNI, I favor post-chemo ITC to be tre...

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