| Title: | Do we need axillary dissection in early breast cancer? |
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| Authors: | ID Čufer, Tanja (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (214,99 KB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution |
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| Organization: |  OI - Institute of Oncology
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| Abstract: | Background. In the existing paradigm of the invasive breast cancer, the treatment with the axillary lymphnode dissection (ALND) and histologic stagingof the axilla, which is associated with a substantial morbidity, is considered necessary for the treatment decision and local control of disease. However paradigms are changing and, since primary tumor characteristics are increasingly used for treatment decision and since there is a trend towards the broad application of preoperative chemotherapy, ALND is less and less important for the treatment planning. In a small subgroup of patients in whom the information on nodal status is still important it can be obtained accurately by the sentinel lymph node biopsy. For good local control of the disease, ALND can be replaced with irradiation of the axilla with substantially lesser morbidity. Conclusions. Abandoning ALND together with breast conserving surgery is one of the major steps towards less mutilating surgery leading to a better quality of life of breast cancer patients at the end of this millennium. |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2000 |
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| Publisher: | Slovenian Medical Association - Slovenian Association of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine Society, Slovenian Society far Radiotherapy and Oncology, and Slovenian Cancer Society |
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| Year of publishing: | 2000 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 285-8, 312 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 34, št. 3 |
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| Source: | Ljubljana |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-17980  |
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| UDC: | 616-006 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-2099 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 11945689 |
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| Copyright: | by Authors |
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| Note: | 2nd international symposyum on organ sparing treatment in oncology; 2000 Sep 14-16; Ljubljana;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 25.01.2024 |
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