Serbian consensus of neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer: NeoPULSE.

Even though surgery is the primary treatment of operable breast cancer, it has been known for decades that the administration of postoperative adjuvant or preoperative neoadjuvant therapy is extremely important. Indications for neodjuvant therapy administration have been expanded over the years, and nowadays this kind of treatment represents an inevitable option in early breast cancer treatment. The NeoPULSE project, which gathered a group of experts in the field of breast cancer from five Serbian university centres, was formed with the aim to define optimal breast cancer diagnosis, indications for neoadjuvant therapy, therapeutic combinations in relation to molecular/biological parameters of breast cancer, as well as the treatment after neoadjuvant therapy.

Analysis of sentinel nodes biopsy in breast cancer--12 years after introduction into clinical practice.

Introduction: Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer has been a standard procedure at the Institute for Oncology of Vojvodina since 1999 and we have done more than 700 biopsy. Before the introduction of axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy, lymph nodes were routinely dissected, and this approach was the gold standard in surgical treatment of breast cancer. The study was aimed at presenting our results in performing sentinel node biopsy in clinical practice for operative treatment in breast cancer.