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SUBMITTER: Hung P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049982 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hung Peiyin P Wang Shi-Yi SY Killelea Brigid K BK Mougalian Sarah S SS Evans Suzanne B SB Sedghi Tannaz T Gross Cary P CP
JNCI cancer spectrum 20190807 4
The use of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is controversial. Using population-cohort data, we examined whether SLNB improves long-term outcomes among patients with DCIS who underwent breast-conserving surgery. We identified 12 776 women aged 67-94 years diagnosed during 2001-2013 with DCIS who underwent breast-conserving surgery from the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare dataset, 1992 (15.6%) of whom underwent SLNB (median follow-up: 69 ...[more]