In the setting of COVID-19, would you perform a SLNB for a patient incidentally found to have microinvasive ER+ ILC in contralateral prophylactic mastectomy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for a locally advanced triple positive breast cancer?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I would not recommend SLN biopsy, independent of COVID-19.
This patient's prognosis is overwhelmingly dependent on the locally advanced triple negative breast cancer, not the microinvasive ER positive breast cancer. Acknowledging that the ER positive cancer may have been larger than microinvasive b...
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Medical Oncologist I am not a surgeon, but technically how would a SL...
I am not a surgeon, but technically how would a SL...