Background: Axillary management for node-positive breast cancer continues to evolve. Data further supporting targeted axillary dissection after neoadjuvant chemotherapy was published in 2016 and may have induced changes in practice.
Methods: Patients included in the National Cancer Database from 2014 to 2017 with clinical T1 to T4 and node-positive disease who underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgical axillary management were evaluated. Patients were divided into the following 3 groups: selective axillary dissection, minimal axillary dissection, and maximal axillary dissection, according to surgical axillary management and pathological node status.
Results: Patients who underwent selective axillary dissection were younger (52.4 years ± 12.4, P < .0001) compared to maximal axillary dissection (55.1 ± 12.7) and minimal axillary dissection (54.6 ± 12.7). Patients with higher clinical stage more frequently underwent maximal axillary dissection, and those with lower tumor grade more frequently underwent minimal axillary dissection (P < .0001). Community cancer programs were more likely to perform maximal axillary dissection compared to all other types of programs and had the slowest rate of adoption of selective axillary dissection. Integrated Network Cancer Programs had the lowest proportion of maximal axillary dissection performed and the highest proportion of selective axillary dissection. Uninsured patients were more likely to receive maximal axillary dissection, and those with private insurance were more likely to undergo selective axillary dissection (P < .0001). Selective axillary dissection rates increased from 29.8% of procedures in 2016 to 41.5% in 2017, and MaxAD rates decreased from 62.4% in 2016 to 47.9% in 2017.
Conclusion: Utilization of selective axillary dissection has increased since 2016; however, discrepancies in surgical axillary management after neoadjuvant chemotherapy still exist.
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