J 2025

Axillary Overtreatment in Patients with Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in the Current Era of Targeted Axillary Dissection

ZAPLETAL, Ondřej; Jan ŽATECKÝ; Lucie GABRIELOVÁ; Iveta SELINGEROVÁ; Miloš HOLÁNEK et. al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Axillary Overtreatment in Patients with Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in the Current Era of Targeted Axillary Dissection

Autoři

ZAPLETAL, Ondřej; Jan ŽATECKÝ; Lucie GABRIELOVÁ; Iveta SELINGEROVÁ; Miloš HOLÁNEK; Petr BURKOŇ a Oldřich COUFAL

Vydání

Cancers (Basel), 2025, 2072-6694

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

30212 Surgery

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.400 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta veřejných politik v Opavě

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17020178

UT WoS

WOS:00140375030

Klíčová slova anglicky

axillary dissection; breast cancer; neoadjuvant chemotherapy; targeted axillary dissection.

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 1. 10. 2025 14:45, MUDr. Jan Žatecký, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Background: In the current era of targeted axillary dissection (TAD), there are still cases where axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is indicated, but histopathological examination confirms the regression of nodal metastases (ypN0). In this situation, ALND may represent undesirable overtreatment. Methods: A retrospective study at the Comprehensive Cancer Centre was conducted based on a prospectively maintained database. Patients who underwent surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) between 2020 and 2023 were selected, specifically those for whom ALND was directly indicated after NAC. Subsequently, clinical-pathological characteristics were compared between cases with ypN0 and those with persistent metastases (ypN+). The reasons for indicating ALND in ypN0 cases were extracted from the medical records. Results: ALND was indicated in 118 cases across 117 patients, of which ypN0 was observed in 44 cases (37%). There were significantly more ypN0 cases for inflammatory carcinomas (68%), the non-luminal HER2-positive phenotype (76%), and carcinomas with histopathological regression of the primary tumor (76%) or the persistence of only the non-invasive component of ypTis (67%). Typical reasons for ALND in ypN0 cases included inflammatory carcinoma (n = 13, 29.5%), locally advanced carcinoma (n = 5, 11.4%), occult carcinoma (n = 2, 4.5%), or persistent lymphadenopathy on ultrasound examination after NAC, especially in the tumor phenotypes HER2-positive and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) (n = 8, 18.2%). Conclusions: Through real-world evidence data analysis, subgroups of breast cancer patients treated with NAC were identified who may experience surgical overtreatment in the axilla. These include patients with inflammatory carcinoma, locally advanced carcinoma, occult carcinoma, or patients with persistent lymphadenopathy on US examination after NAC, particularly in the tumor phenotypes HER2-positive and TNBC.
Zobrazeno: 6. 11. 2025 01:27