Is Pathologic Axillary Staging Valid If Lymph Nodes Are Less than 10 with Axillary Lymph Node Dissection after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy?

J Clin Med · 2022 · PMC9656978 · PMID 36362792

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After compensating ypT and ypN staging, there was a strong trend in DFS; however, there was no significant difference in DFS ( p = 0.056) and OS ( p = 0.528) between the <10 nodes group and the ≥10 nodes group ( Figure 2 ).

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