235 Sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer do not affect prognosis: a population-based study

Abstract

and pN0(i+): (HR 0.4 (95% CI, 0.14-1.3)) and neither was the case after additional adjustment for adjuvant systemic therapy. Our practice based study showed that the presence of sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer patients has hardly any impact on breast cancer overall survival during the first years after diagnosis.