Validation and Limitations of Use of a Breast Cancer Nomogram Predicting the Likelihood of Non-Sentinel Node Involvement After Positive Sentinel Node Biopsy
Academic Article
Overview
MeSH Major
Breast Neoplasms
Lymph Nodes
Nomograms
abstract
The MSKCC nomogram has been validated for all the patients having a metastatic SLN at the Institut Curie. However, this model was not reliably predictive for positive non-SLN in cases with micrometastic positive SLN.