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Clinical and Pathological Factors Affecting the Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Breast Cancer

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Sentinel lymph node biopsy has become the routine procedure in axilla-negative breast cancer patients at most medical centers for axillary staging and local control in the recent years. Sentinel lymph node is the only focus in axillary lymph metastasis in a large portion of patients. In our trial, we investigated the clinical and pathological factors that affect the positive status of sentinel lymph node. We included 89 patients, who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) with methylene blue and/or technetium-99 m Sulphur Colloid due to early-stage breast cancer. Five patients, in whom SLN was not detected and who underwent axillary dissection, were excluded from the trial. The patient age, location of the tumor, the type of the tumor, the T stage by the TNM staging system, the histological grade and type of the tumor, the status of multifocality, the lymphovascular invasion status of the tumor, and the ER, PR, and HER-neu2 status were recorded. The median age of the 89 patients was 52, 9 (±10) years. Fifty-seven (64 %) and 32 (36 %) of the 89 patients were detected to have positive and negative SLN, respectively. Assessing the SLNB positivity and the patient age, tumor size, tumor grade, multifocality, tumor localization, the T stage by the TNM staging, the ER/PR positivity/negativity, and the HER/neu2 and p53 status, the data revealed no statistically significant results with respect to SLN metastasis. The lymphovascular invasion status (LVI) was observed to statistically affect the SLN positivity (p < 0.016). We showed that LVI could be an important marker in predicting the SLN positivity in patients with axilla-negative early-stage breast cancer. In the future, upon introduction of new biomarkers and with relevant studies, it may be possible to predict the SLNB status of patients at an adequately high accuracy and a low risk.

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  1. General Surgery Clinic, Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, 172. Sokak no: 3 Daire: 3 Basın Sitesi, İzmir, Turkey

    Önder Karahallı, Turan Acar, Murat Kemal Atahan, Nihan Acar, Mehmet Hacıyanlı & Kemal Erdinç Kamer

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Karahallı, Ö., Acar, T., Atahan, M.K. et al. Clinical and Pathological Factors Affecting the Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Breast Cancer. Indian J Surg 79, 418–422 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12262-016-1500-3

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