Abstract 4906
Background
ACOSOG Z0011 trial showed that axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) had no impact on recurrence and survival in patients with positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) after breast-conserving surgery. However, it is still unknown if omission of ALND can be applicable to patients treated with mastectomy. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether ALND could be safely omitted for patients with SLN–positive breast cancer after mastectomy.
Methods
From a prospective database of 296 patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer who underwent mastectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) from March 2006 to December 2016, 81 patients who had positive SLNs were analyzed. Patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy were excluded from the analysis. Lymphatic mapping was performed with a combined method of blue dye and radioisotope.
Results
The median age was 57.0 (range: 32-85) years and the median tumor size was 2.5 (range: 0.6-7.9) cm. Of 81 patients, 23 (28.4%) patients omitted ALND. Patients with SLNB alone were more likely to have smaller SLN involvements (p < 0.001): micrometastasis was identified in 13 (56.5%) patients in SLNB-alone group and 9 (15.5%) patients in ALND group. The number of positive SLN was comparable between SLNB-alone (median: 1.0, range: 1-6) and ALND groups (median: 1.0, range: 1-5) (p = 0.063). There was no significant difference in characteristics including age, tumor size and tumor subtypes between the two groups. Post-mastectomy radiotherapy was performed in 5 (21.7%) patients with SLNB alone and 16 (27.6%) patients with ALND (p = 0.588). The majority of patients with macrometastatic SLN received adjuvant chemotherapy in both groups (83.3% vs. 75.5%, p = 0.562). After a median follow-up of 54.7 months, no axillary recurrence was observed in both groups and 5-year disease-free survival was not significantly different between the two groups (75.0% vs. 88.8%, p = 0.489). Lymphedema was observed significantly more often after ALND than after SLNB (22.4% vs. 4.3%, p = 0.045).
Conclusions
These data suggested that ALND could be safely omitted in SLN-positive breast cancer patients treated with mastectomy and appropriate systemic therapy.
Clinical trial identification
Legal entity responsible for the study
Akiko Matsumoto.
Funding
Has not received any funding.
Editorial Acknowledgement
Disclosure
All authors have declared no conflicts of interest.
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