Axillary staging for breast cancer during pregnancy: feasibility and safety of sentinel lymph node biopsy

ConclusionsSLN biopsy during pregnancy has a comparably low axillary recurrence rate as in nonpregnant women. Therefore, this method can be considered during pregnancy instead of standard ALND for early-stage, clinically node-negative breast cancer.
Source: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research