Patients with Breast Cancer and Negative Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy without Additional Axillary Lymph Node Dissection: A Follow-Up Study of up to 5 Years

Abstract

(1) Only 1/95 patients studied developed nodal extra-axillary recurrence together with distant metastases. (2) The results obtained support the selective sentinel node biopsy as an accurate technique in the axillary stratification of patients with breast cancer, offering in the cases of negative sentinel node biopsy a safe axillary control after a 5-year follow-up.