Axillary Dissection in Breast Cancer Patients with Metastatic Sentinel Node: To Do or Not to Do? Suggestions from Our Series

Table 2

SLN involvement related to pT (higher pT is correlated with higher chance of metastatic SLN, 𝑃<0.0001).

		SLN- (%)	SLN = ITC (%)	SLN = pN1mi (%)	SLN = pN1a (%)	Total*
	1mi	41	4	1	0	46
		89,1	8,70	2,2	0
	1a	63	7	2	1	73
		86,3	9,6	2,7	1,4
	1b	212	6	17	19	254
pT		83,5	2,4	6,7	7,5
	1c	392	25	57	80	554
		70,8	4,5	10,3	14,4
	2	138	17	37	90	282
		48,9	6,0	13,1	31,9
	>2	15	1	1	18	35
		42,8	2,9	2,9	51,4
		861	60	115	208	1244

*The sum of all pT1 cases is 927.