Can you use Mammaprint to decide on chemotherapy in a young patient with positive sentinel nodes if no further axillary dissection is planned to see if there is more nodal involvement?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Community Practice
Mammoprint is the only genomic assay with level one evidence in node positive patients. Assuming that no axillary dissection to be done suggests ACOSOG Z-11 in a lumpectomy patient. Most would agree that taking more than one sentinel node decreases the risk of false negative assays so, in a pa...
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Medical Oncologist at SSM Cancer Care Thanks!
My concern was if 2/2 sentinel nodes were...
Medical Oncologist at University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center I would not use Mamma-print or any other genomic a...
Medical Oncologist at University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center A total of 25% of the transATAC study’s populat...
Thanks! My concern was if 2/2 sentinel nodes were...
I would not use Mamma-print or any other genomic a...
A total of 25% of the transATAC study’s populat...
Thank u all