Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. In this post, I will discuss our most recent understanding of this aggressive disease.

almost all women with IBC have lymph node involvement at the time of diagnosis.

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Radiotherapy or surgery of the axilla after a positive sentinel node in breast cancer

The standard of care for evaluating the axilla in breast cancer is sentinel lymph node biopsy. For patients who happen to have positive lymph node involvement by sentinel lymph node biopsy, additional treatment of the axilla is necessary. Proceeding with total axillary lymph node dissection (ALND)while effective is associated with significant morbidity and may not be needed in all patients with positive sentinel lymph node biopsy. The AMAROS trial came to provide a needed answer, ” Can axillary radiation therapy to the axilla in a specific subset of patients with positive sentinel lymph node be done in place of ALND?”

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