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The purpose of this study is to prospectively evaluate the combined use of the MSKCC nomogram (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center) and Tenon score to select, in patients with metastatic sentinel lymph node (SN), those at low risk of metastatic non-SN in whom additional axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) could be avoided.
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EXPERIMENTAL PLAN AND COURSE OF STUDY This is a prospective non-randomized non-interventional multicenter study including the respect of a quality charter and involving a prospective registration of clinical and histological data to test the hypothesis of a proportion of false negative rate (=rate of metastatic SN) of 5% +/- 5% within the population at low risk by the combined use of the MSKCC nomogram and Tenon score. No modification therapy will be conducted because the scores will not be provided to operators.
6.1 Conduct of the study 6.1.1 Before and during surgery Every surgeon agreeing to participate in the study - and thus to respect the quality charter - will make the inclusion of his eligible patients with an e-CRF which will generate automatically a number of anonymity. A form of inclusion specifying the number of anonymity of the patient, the initials of the name and the first name as well as the date of birth of the patient will be send back by e-mail by the study coordinator and clinical study technician (CST) of the URC-Est. The surgeon will have at his disposal 60 boards of labels of anonymity elaborated by the CST of the URC-Est corresponding to 30 patients (2 boards of labels by patient). The resupplying of labels will be managed by the CST.
A label will contain i) the number of anonymity, ii) the address and phone number of the surgeon, iii) the address and phone number of the pathology laboratory, iv) the address and phone number of the study coordinator including fax number where pathological results should be send.
During the first intervention, the surgeon will send the histological specimen (i.e. lumpectomy or mastectomy, SN, and possibly non-SN in case the ALND is completed during the first surgical procedure with a board of labels of anonymity.
In case of additional surgical procedure to complete ALND, the histological specimen (i.e. non-SN) will be sent to the pathology laboratory with the second board of label of anonymity corresponding to this patient.
The laboratory of pathology will have to label with anonymity labels all histological reports that should be sent to the study coordinator. To eventually calculate combined prediction (MSKCC nomogram and Tenon score) and ensure respect of the quality charter, specific data must appear in the pathology report:
6.2 Procedure to calculate the risk of non-SN involvement A calculation of the probability of metastatic non-SN using the MSKCC nomogram and the the Tenon score will be performed for all patients. Calculations will be implemented under the responsibility of coordinating doctor.
The result of these calculations will not be communicated to surgeons. 6.2.1 Calculating the score of Tenon
The scores for the 3 variables are then added together to calculate the score of Tenon.
6.2.2 Calculation of risk by the MSKCC nomogram This calculation involves 8 variables: 1) histological type associated with SBR grade (infiltrating ductal carcinoma grade 1, grade 2, grade 3 and invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC)), 2) the existence of a LYMPHO-vascular invasion (LVI) (yes, no), 3) the multifocal nature of the tumor (yes, no), 4) status of estrogen receptor (present, absent), 4) the number of non-metastatic SN (0 to 14), 5) the number of metastatic SN (from 1 to 7), 6) the size of the tumor (from 0 to 9 cm), 7) method of detecting metastases in the SN. For the latter, there are 2 different situations: when using the technique CRYOCONGELATION, 4 items were proposed (CRYOCONGELATION analysis, analysis by H&E : routine H&E and serial sectioning H&E, and IHC), and in the absence of use of technology by cryocongelation only 3 items were proposed (analysis by H&E : routine H&E and serial sectioning H&E, and IHC).
The calculation must be done using the calculator developed by the authors and easily accessible on the website http://www.mskcc.org/MSKCC/htlm/5794.cfm.
First Row "Performed Frozen Section. The item must be checked if the pathologist has performed frozen section intra-operatively. Otherwise, the item must not be checked.
Second line "Pathological size (cm)" must refer the histological size of the largest tumor diameter in centimeters.
Third line "Tumor type and grade": you must select the corresponding item from the 4 items offered: ductal I (for infiltrating ductal carcinoma (TCC) grade 1), ductal II (for TCC grade 2), ductal III (for TCC grade 3) and lobular (for infiltrating lobular carcinoma).
Fourth line "Number of Positive Sentinel Lymph Nodes" must report the number of metastatic SN, whatever the type of flooding (by macrometastasis a micrometastasis or isolated cells).
Fifth line "SN Method of Detection": you must select the item. Two scenarios:
Sixth row "Number of Negative Sentinel Lymph Nodes': the number of non-metastatic SN.
Seventh row "Lymphovascular Invasion." The item must be checked in case of lymphatic or vascular emboli.
Eighth row "Multifocality. The item must be checked in case of multifocality.
Ninth Line "Estrogen Receptor Positive". The item must be checked if the tumor estrogen receptors.
The use of the nomogram (defined as the graphical representation of the model) is not recommended because the calculation is less precise than the web interface.
6.2.3 Risk calculation combining the MSKCC nomogram and the Tenon score
6.3 Monitoring of patients included in the study The study evaluates the combined use of two predictors at baseline. It does not require monitoring. However, all patients will be monitored regularly for any breast cancer and adjuvant treatment of breast cancer will remain unchanged by this study.
6.4 Total time of research The recruitment and the opening of study centers is planned over a period of 6 months. Inclusion of patients is planned over a period of 18 months. The total duration of the study is 24 months.
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