Research and Trials

International Multicenter Tool to Predict the Risk of Nonsentinel node Metastases in Breast Cancer.

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The nomogram we have developed is now available to download for free as an app for your iPhone/iPad. Just search for "Predictive Tools for Breast Cancer" on your Application Store.

This tool needs calibration according to local practice (this is because the number of retrieved nodes may vary according to surgeons and pathologists). You will therefore need to enter 2 figures (In the first line of each tool) as follows:

a) For risk prediction of additional nodes the prevalence of nonsetinel N+ in our institutional series is 35. This is an example only and you will need to enter yours.

b) For risk prediction of N2 (I.e. =/>4 nodes) nodes after macrometastatic Sentinel Node Biopsy is 6. This is an example only and you will need to enter yours.

Feedback on this tool is welcomed. Please send to Riccardo A. Audisio, MD, FRCS
c/o marciawoolf@baso.org.uk