Assessment of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center nomogram to predict sentinel lymph node metastases in a Dutch breast cancer population
Academic Article
Overview
MeSH Major
Breast Neoplasms
Lymphatic Metastasis
Nomograms
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
abstract
In a Dutch population, the MSKCC nomogram estimated risk of sentinel node metastases in breast cancer patients well (i.e. calibration) with reasonable discrimination (area under ROC curve). Nomogram performance on core needle biopsy data has to be evaluated prospectively.
