The purpose of this research study is to determine how feasible and accurate identifying and removing specific lymph nodes in the axilla (armpit) after neoadjuvant systemic therapy is when patients present with breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes in the axilla. The specific lymph nodes removed would be determined at the time of diagnosis. If a biopsy proves that cancer has spread to a lymph node, a titanium clip will placed in it to mark it for future removal. That lymph node will be removed after systemic therapy and compared with the rest of the lymph nodes removed from that region.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
the same intervention as listed in the arm description
UNC- Chapel Hill Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
The false negative rate of TAD
will be defined as the percentage of patients in whom the lymph nodes identified with TAD were free of residual metastatic disease while remaining metastatic disease was demonstrated in the completion axillary lymph node dissection
Time frame: two years
Nodal pathologic complete response
will be defined as no residual carcinoma in any lymph node sampled during TAD and/or ALND.
Time frame: two years
The percentage of lymph nodes removed with ALND not identified by TAD that harbor residual metastasis
will be calculated by the formula: (# pos LN/# LN sampled by ALND) x 100
Time frame: two years
The success rate of preoperative localization with the Savi Scout®
will be determined by the number of reflectors placed versus the number of reflectors detected at the time of surgery.
Time frame: two years
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