Ji-Jung Jung, Jong-Ho Cheun, Soo-Yeon Kim, Jiwon Koh, Jai Min Ryu, Tae-Kyung Yoo, Hee-Chul Shin, Sung Gwe Ahn, Seho Park, Woosung Lim, Sang-Eun Nam, Min Ho Park, Ku Sang Kim, Taewoo Kang, Jeeyeon Lee, Hyun Jo Youn, Yoo Seok Kim, Chang Ik Yoon, Hong-Kyu Kim, Hyeong-Gon Moon, Wonshik Han, Nariya Cho, Min Kyoon Kim, Han-Byoel Lee
PURPOSE: Advances in chemotherapeutic and targeted agents have increased pathologic complete response (pCR) rates after neoadjuvant systemic therapy (NST). Vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB) has been suggested to accurately evaluate pCR. This study aims to confirm the non-inferiority of the 5-year disease-free survival of patients who omitted breast surgery when predicted to have a pCR based on breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and VAB after NST, compared with patients with a pCR who had undergone breast surgery in previous studies...
February 2024: Journal of Breast Cancer