Feasibility of fine ‐needle aspiration for assessing responses to chemotherapy in metastatic nodes marked with clips in breast cancer: A prospective registry study

ConclusionsFNA of marked nodes after chemotherapy has a high false ‐negative rate. This highlights the need for surgical staging of the axilla after NAC to assess the response.

Source: Cancer - October 25, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Abigail S. Caudle, Henry M. Kuerer, Savitri Krishnamurthy, Kyungmin Shin, Brian P. Hobbs, Junsheng Ma, Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, Ashley C. Washington, Sarah M. DeSnyder, Dalliah M. Black, Kelly K. Hunt, Wei T. Yang Tags: Original Article Source Type: research