Efficacy of Targeted Axillary Dissection With Radar Reflector Localization Before Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

For clinically node positive breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), targeted axillary dissection (TAD) can be used to stage the axilla. TAD removes the sentinel lymph node (SLN) and tagged positive nodes, which can be identified via radar reflector localization (RRL). As it can be challenging to localize a previously positive node after NAC, we evaluated RRL prior to NAC.

Source: Journal of Surgical Research - December 13, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Alison C. Coogan, Lilia G. Lunt, Cristina O'Donoghue, Sarah S. Keshwani, Andrea Madrigrano Source Type: research