A Novel Method of Clipped Axillary Lymph Node Localization Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients .

KK Women's and Children's Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breast Cancer Female

Treatments: Procedure: skin marking of clip axillary lymph node for localisation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03878017

2017/2037

Details and patient eligibility

About

to determine the feasibility of a novel technique of localization of clipped LN post neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Enrollment: 15 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• breast cancer patients with involved axillary LN <3,
• going for neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Exclusion criteria

-stage 4 breast cancer patients

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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15 participants in 1 patient group

skin marking of clipped axillary LN

Experimental group

Description:

all eligible patients underwent skin marking of their clipped axillary LN post neoadjuvant chemotherapy to determine the retrieval rate of the clipped nodes

Treatment:

Procedure: skin marking of clip axillary lymph node for localisation