• Center of Breast Cancer, Shandong Cancer Hospital & Institute, Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, University of Jinan, Jinan 250117, Shandong Province, China;
WANGYong-sheng, Email: wangysh2008@aliyun.com
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Objective To discuss the strategy of locoregional surgery for breast cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Method The pertinent literatures about locoregional surgery concerning breast-conserving therapy, factors of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence, pathological shrinkage modes of breast primary tumor, and sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy were reviewed. Results ①The major benefit of neoadjuvant chemotherapy was to increase the proportion of breast-conserving therapy after downstaging the primary breast tumor. However, the use of breast-conserving therapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy might remain a higher risk of ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence. It was now widely recognized that the risk factors for ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence were multifocal pattern of residual tumor and pathologic residual tumor larger than 2 cm. The shrinkage mode of the primary breast tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and its relative factors were still unclear. 2 Sentinel lymph node biopsy(SLNB) was feasible either before or after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and approval by SLNB guideline and expert consensus. Patients with a cN0 status could get more benefits from SLNB after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Although there was a bright future for SLNB as an alternative to ALND for patients with primary cN1 and downstaging to cN0 after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, it needed to obtain the accepted clinical identification rate, false negative rate, as well as similar regional recurrence rate and overall survival as compared to ALND. Conclusions Currently, surgical management is crucial for reducing the locoregional recurrence risk of breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, no matter what the clinical and radiographic efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy is. In the era of genomics and SLNB, individual locoregional surgical management could be arrived according to the primary stage and neoadjuvant chemotherapy response.

Citation: YANGTao, WANGYong-sheng. Progress of Locoregional Surgery for Breast Cancer Patients after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy. CHINESE JOURNAL OF BASES AND CLINICS IN GENERAL SURGERY, 2014, 21(5): 583-588. doi: 10.7507/1007-9424.20140140 Copy

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