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Clipping the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial

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  • 发表日期：

    2024年7月12日

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  • Kayla M. Switalla,
  • Judy C. Boughey,
  • Katrina Dimitroff,
  • Christina Yau,
  • Velle Ladores,
  • Hongmei Yu,
  • Julia Tchou,
  • Mehra Golshan,
  • Gretchen Ahrendt,
  • Lauren M. Postlewait,
  • Mara Piltin,
  • Chantal R. Reyna,
  • Cindy B. Matsen,
  • Todd M. Tuttle,
  • Anne M. Wallace,
  • Cletus A. Arciero,
  • Marie Catherine Lee,
  • Jennifer Tseng,
  • Jennifer Son,
  • Roshni Rao,
  • Candice Sauder,
  • Arpana Naik,
  • Marissa Howard-McNatt,
  • Rachael Lancaster,
  • Peter Norwood,
  • Laura J. Esserman,
  • Rita A. Mukhtar

摘要

Background

For patients with clinically node-positive (cN+) breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), retrieving previously clipped, biopsy-proven positive lymph nodes during sentinel lymph node biopsy [i.e., targeted axillary dissection (TAD)] may reduce false negative rates. However, the overall utilization and impact of clipping positive nodes remains uncertain.

Patients and Methods

We retrospectively analyzed cN+ ISPY-2 patients (2011–2022) undergoing axillary surgery after NAC. We evaluated trends in node clipping and associations with type of axillary surgery [sentinel lymph node (SLN) only, SLN and axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), or ALND only] and event-free survival (EFS) in patients that were cN+ on a NAC trial.

Results

Among 801 cN+ patients, 161 (20.1%) had pre-NAC clip placement in the positive node. The proportion of patients that were cN+ undergoing clip placement increased from 2.4 to 36.2% between 2011 and 2021. Multivariable logistic regression showed nodal clipping was independently associated with higher odds of SLN-only surgery [odds ratio (OR) 4.3, 95% confidence interval (CI) 2.8–6.8, p < 0.001]. This was also true among patients with residual pathologically node-positive (pN+) disease. Completion ALND rate did not differ based on clip retrieval success. No significant differences in EFS were observed in those with or without clip placement, both with or without successful clip retrieval [hazard ratio (HR) 0.85, 95% CI 0.4–1.7, p = 0.7; HR 1.8, 95% CI 0.5–6.0, p = 0.3, respectively].

Conclusion

Clip placement in the positive lymph node before NAC is increasingly common. The significant association between clip placement and omission of axillary dissection, even among patients with pN+ disease, suggests a paradigm shift toward TAD as a definitive surgical management strategy in patients with pN+ disease after NAC.