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Objective To investigate the nonsentinel lymph nodal (NSLN) status in 1-2 sentinel lymph node positive early breast cancer and to compare with that in Z0011 ALND group.Methods A total of 234 T1,T2 invasive breast cancer with 1-2 positive sentinel lymph nodes were collected in Henan Tumorr Hospital from Jul 2010 to Aug 2014.The data was compared with that of Z0011 ALND group.Results 234 female patients were enrolled.76 cases had non sentinel lymph node metastases.The proportion of 1 and 2 sentinel lymph node metastases was 75.2％ and 24.8％,respectively.The number of positive sentinel lymph nodes and that of negative ones were independent predictors of the non sentinel lymph node status (all P ＜ 0.05).Menstrual status,hormone receptor,Ki67 level and HER2 were not associated with nonsentinel lymph node metastasis (all P ＞ 0.05).They had nonsentinel lymph node positive rate (P ＞ 0.05) similar to that of Z0011 ALND group.Conclusious The number of sentinel lymph nodes and negative sentinel lymph nodes were associated with nonsentinel lymph node metastasis in the 1-2 sentinel lymph positive early stage breast cancer.Those patients had similar positive nonsentinel lymph node rate to that of Z0011 ALND group.
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PURPOSE: The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z0011 trial reported that complete dissection of axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) may not be warranted in women with clinical T1-T2 tumors and one or two involved ALNs who were undergoing lumpectomy plus radiation followed by systemic therapy. The present study was conducted to identify preoperative imaging predictors of ≥ 3 ALNs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The training set consisted of 1,917 patients with clinical T1-T2 and node negative invasive breast cancer. Factors associated with ≥ 3 involved ALNs were evaluated by logistic regression analysis. The validation set consisted of 378 independent patients. The nomogram was applied prospectively to 512 patients who met the Z0011 criteria. RESULTS: Of the 1,917 patients, 204 (10.6%) had ≥ 3 positive nodes. Multivariate analysis showed that involvement of ≥ 3 nodes was significantly associated with ultrasonographic and chest computed tomography findings of suspicious ALNs (p < 0.001 each). These two imaging criteria, plus patient age, were used to develop a nomogram calculating the probability of involvement of ≥ 3 ALNs. The areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the nomogram were 0.852 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.820 to 0.883) for the training set and 0.896 (95% CI, 0.836 to 0.957) for the validation set. Prospective application of the nomogram showed that 60 of 512 patients (11.7%) had scores above the cut-off. Application of the nomogram reduced operation time and cost, with a very low re-operation rate (1.6%). CONCLUSION: Patients likely to have ≥ 3 positive ALNs could be identified by preoperative imaging. The nomogram was helpful in selective intraoperative examination of sentinel lymph nodes.