Does the presence of multiple positive intramammary lymph nodes in the setting of negative sentinel lymph nodes cause you to treat regional lymphatics?
Would triple negative disease effect your decision?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Community Practice
In the non-sentinel node era, all these patients had axillary dissection and had higher likelihood of the axilla being positive. In the era of sentinel node biopsy, we usually we don't change if sentinel node was mapped and sampled successfully. The thought process is for these pati...