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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy For Locally Advanced Breast Cancer

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Patients Presenting With Locally Advanced Breast Cancer: A Prospective Study

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 21 Jul 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study is being done to help the investigators determine how accurate the sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) procedure is in identifying residual cancer cells after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients presenting with locally advanced breast cancer.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
162 (actual)
First submitted
18 Aug 2017
Start date
17 Aug 2017
Primary completion date
15 Jun 2027
Lead sponsor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
NCT number
NCT03255577

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 162
  • From 17 Aug 2017 to the primary completion date, 15 Jun 2027
  • 8 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Prior treatment

  • Patients with a prior history of ipsilateral breast cancer

Other

  • Pregnant patients
  • Patients with persistent palpable axillary nodes after NAC, as assessed by physical exam
  • Patients not consenting to ALND

Who the study is looking for

  • Female patients over 18 years of age with biopsy-proven breast cancer
  • Patients presenting with locally advanced disease in the breast (cT4) and/or in the nodes (cN2/N3) as assessed by clinical exam and imaging
  • Patients presenting to surgery clinic after receipt of NAC at outside hospital with documentation of cT4 or cN2/3 disease on initial outside physical exam and imaging studies
  • Patients receiving NAC and having a nodal complete clinical response as assessed by physical exam

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: Female · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (8)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Memorial Sloan Kettering at Basking Ridge (Consent and Follow Up)
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Basking RidgeUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack
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CommackUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
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HarrisonUnited StatesUnknown status
BAPTIST ALLIANCE - MCI (Data Collection Only)
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MiamiUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth
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MiddletownUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (Consent only and Follow Up)
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MontvaleUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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New YorkUnited StatesUnknown status
Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (Consent only and Follow Up)
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UniondaleUnited StatesUnknown status

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