ASO Author Reflections: Time to Explore Minimally Invasive Axillary Nodal Staging After Neo-Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Inflammatory Breast Cancer.
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Abstract
In inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), obstructed lymphatics present a barrier to sentinel node biopsy. In theory this challenge could be overcome by clipping the clinically positive node at presentation and surgically retrieving it after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). If the clipped node accurately reflects the axillary status, then deescalation of axillary nodal dissection could be a possibility in IBC with complete pathological nodal response post-NAC.