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Background
Despite data demonstrating the safety of omitting axillary surgery in older women with early‐stage breast cancer, the incidence of axillary surgery remains high. It was hypothesized that the prevalence of nodal positivity would decrease with advancing age.
Methods
The National Cancer Data Base was used to construct a cohort of adult women with early‐stage, clinically node‐negative, estrogen...
Current National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for breast cancer staging include pre-treatment complete blood count (CBC) and liver function tests (LFT) to screen for occult metastatic disease. To date, the relevance of these tests in detecting metastatic disease in asymptomatic women with early-stage breast cancer (Stage I/II) has not been demonstrated. Although chest x-rays are no longer...
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