Best surgery plan for breast cancer lymph nodes after chemotherapy
Part of Cancer, Skin clinical trials.
This study looks at the safest and most useful way to remove and check breast-cancer lymph nodes in the armpit after you finish chemotherapy given before surgery. It may help you avoid unnecessary surgery while still getting accurate information about how well the treatment worked.
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Who can take part
- You are age 18 or older, and you can be male or female.
- You started with breast cancer that had spread to at least one armpit lymph node (N1) and no distant spread.
- Your armpit lymph-node spread was proven by needle biopsy (FNA or core biopsy) before chemotherapy.
- You received standard chemotherapy before surgery (or you received hormone treatment as part of another approved study).
- After chemotherapy, you must have a sentinel node biopsy using two tracers, with at least 3 armpit lymph nodes removed (with specific rules about how the involved node was found/removed).
- After treatment, there must be no remaining armpit lymph-node cancer larger than “tiny” cells, or you may still qualify even if the breast has some remaining disease.
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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