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The NILS study protocol - a retrospective validation study of a preoperative decision-making tool for non-invasive lymph node staging in women with primary breast cancer [ISRCTN14341750]
2022-01-03
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<h4>Background</h4> Routine preoperative axillary ultrasonography has proven insufficient for detecting low-burden nodal metastatic deposits. For the majority of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients presenting with clinical T1-T2 N0 disease, the standard axillary staging by sentinel lymph node biopsy is not therapeutic. The pilot non-invasive lymph node staging (NILS) artificial neural network (ANN) model to pre...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4a9e167a-1f1e-52b0-9f29-6ecdd2bd8d8d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.01.02.22268618
