Bruno D. Fornage

TL;DR: Preoperative high-quality ultrasonography detected lymph node or soft-tissue metastases in neck compartments believed to be uninvolved by PE in 39% of patients, potentially minimizing local-regional recurrence.

TL;DR: AlN pCR is associated with an excellent prognosis, even with a residual primary tumor, pointing to biologic differences between primary and metastatic cells, and patients who do not benefit from neoadjuvant anthracyclines are unlikely to benefit from subsequent taxanes.

TL;DR: To better identify patients for this procedure, various tumor and patient factors along with preoperative diagnostic studies with the presence or absence of pathologically positive nodes in a group of patients who underwent node dissection are correlated.

TL;DR: False-negative FNA results are uncommon, supporting the practice of observation in most of these patients, and among those with indeterminate biopsy results, high-risk subgroups include patients with F NA results suspicious for papillary carcinoma and follicular neoplasms >2 cm.

TL;DR: In breast cancer, axillary lymph nodes can be classified according to cortical morphologic features and should serve as a guideline for universal performance of fine-needle aspiration for preoperative staging of breast cancer if proven with results of in vivo studies.