Thorsten Kühn MD PhD; SABCS 2025: No Need for Axillary Node Dissection When Clinically Node-Positive Breast Cancers Convert to Node-Negative After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

Thorsten Kühn MD PhD discusses findings from the AXSANA/EUBREAST 3(R) study at SABCS 2025. The research indicates that breast cancer patients who convert from clinically node-positive to node-negative after neoadjuvant chemotherapy do not require axillary lymph node dissection. Less invasive surgical staging procedures were found to be non-inferior in terms of three-year outcomes, irrespective of tumor type or initial stage.