Accuracy of Frozen Section Analysis of Sentinel Lymph Nodes for the Detection of Asian Breast Cancer Micrometastasis - Experience from Pakistan

Hashmi, Atif Ali; Faridi, Naveen; Khurshid, Amna; Naqvi, Hanna; Malik, Babar; Malik, Faisal Riaz; Fida, Zubaida; Mujtuba, Shafaq

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저자정보: Hashmi, Atif Ali (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College) Faridi, Naveen (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College) Khurshid, Amna (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College) Naqvi, Hanna (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College) Malik, Babar (Department of Medical Oncology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation) Malik, Faisal Riaz (Department of Pathology and Microbiology, Aga Khan University Hospital) Fida, Zubaida (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College) Mujtuba, Shafaq (Department of Histopathology, Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College)

저널정보: 아시아태평양암예방학회 Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 제14권 제4호

발행연도: 2013.1

수록면: 2,657 - 2,662 (6page)

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Background: Intraoperative sentinel lymph node biopsy has now become the standard of care for patients with clinically node negative breast cancer for diagnosis and also in order to determine the need for immediate axillary clearance. Several large scale studies confirmed the diagnostic reliability of this method. However, micrometastases are frequently missed on frozen sections. Recent studies showed that both disease free interval and overall survival are significantly affected by the presence of micrometastatic disease. The aim of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of intraoperative frozen section analysis of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) for the detection of breast cancer micrometastasis and to evaluate the status of non-sentinel lymph nodes (non-SLNs) in those patients subjected to further axillary sampling. Materials and Methods: We performed a retrospective study on 154 patients who underwent SLN biopsy from January 2008 till October 2011. The SLNs were sectioned at 2 mm intervals and submitted entirely for frozen sections. Three levels of each section submitted are examined and the results were compared with further levels on paraffin sections. Results: Overall 40% of patients (62/154) were found to be SLN positive on final (paraffin section) histology, out of which 44 demonstrated macrometastases (>2mm) and 18 micrometastases (<2mm). The overall sensitivity and specificity of frozen section analysis of SLN for the detection of macrometastasis was found to be 100% while those for micrometastasis were 33.3% and 100%, respectively. Moreover 20% of patients who had micrometastases in SLN had positive non-SLNs on final histology. Conclusions: Frozen section analysis of SLNs lacks sufficient accuracy to rule out micrometastasis by current protocols. Therefore these need to be revised in order to pick up micrometastasis which appears to have clinical significance. We suggest that this can be achieved by examining more step sections of blocks.

#Micrometastasis #sentinel lymph node biopsy #breast cancer #frozen section

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