Abstract

Background: De-escalation of axillary surgery following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) for patients with node positive disease at diagnosis have focused on ensuring a low false negative rate for those who undergo sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) only. Histopathological evidence of treatment effect is one surrogate that supports an axillary pathological complete response (pCR). This study aimed to assess rates of histological treatment effect in patients who have an axillary pCR following axillary surgery post NACT.

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