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Beyond the False Negative Rate: Development of Quality Indicators for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer |
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| Authors: | May Lynn Quan Bryan J. Wells David McCready Frances C. Wright Novlette Fraser Anna R. Gagliardi |
| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,University of Toronto,Toronto,Canada;2.Department of Surgery, Princess Margaret Hospital,University of Toronto,Toronto,Canada |
| Abstract: | BackgroundSentinel lymph node biopsy (SNLB) has been adopted as the standard method of axillary staging for women with clinically node-negative early-stage breast cancer. The false negative rate as a quality indicator is impractical given the need for a completion axillary dissection to calculate. The objective of this study was to develop practical quality indicators for SLNB using an expert consensus method and to determine if they were feasible to measure. |
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