Stopped: Slow recruiting rate.
Axillary lymph node status is a vital prognostic factor in breast cancer patients and provides crucial information for making treatment decisions. Ultrasound test with subsequent fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy in nodes with suspicious features remains the standard of axillary lymph node workup. Insufficient sampling and limited diagnostic accuracy of cytological test compromise the outcome the preoperative lymph node staging strategy especially in patients with intermediate suspicious nodes. This prospective study is to compare the performance of a crpo-assisted core biopsy with FNA.
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Sensitivity of biopsy
Timeframe: Immediate after pathological lymph node stage is available