Research Article

Luminal A Breast Cancer: How Feasible is Omitting Axillary Dissection Without Neoadjuvant Therapy

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

Variables

AgeMean ± SD56.74±10.89

Adjuvant CT, n(%)No139 (51.3)
Yes132 (48.7)

Adjuvant endocrine therapy, n(%)No0 (0)
Yes271 (100.0)

Mortality, n(%)No268 (98.9)
Yes3 (1.1)

Local recurrence, n(%)No270 (99.6)
Yes1 (0.4)

Distant metastasis, n(%)No267 (98.5)
Yes4 (1.5)

SLNB : sentinel lymph node metastasis; SLN: sentinel lymph node; AD : axillary dissection; OAD : omitting axillary dissection; ADAS : axillary dissection after sentinel.