TY - JOUR AU - Ebner, Florian AU - Wöckel, Achim AU - Schwentner, Lukas AU - Blettner, Maria AU - Janni, Wolfgang AU - Kreienberg, Rolf AU - Wischnewsky, Manfred PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/18 TI - Does the number of removed axillary lymphnodes in high risk breast cancer patients influence the survival? JO - BMC Cancer SP - 90 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - The decision making process for axillary dissection has changed in recent years for patients with early breast cancer and positive sentinel lymph nodes (LN). The question now arises, what is the optimal surgical treatment for patients with positive axillary LN (pN+). This article tries to answer the following questions:(1)Is there a survival benefit for breast cancer patients with 3 or more positive LN (pN3+) and with more than 10 removed LN?(2)Is there a survival benefit for high risk breast cancer patients (triple negative or Her2 + breast cancer) and with 3 or more positive LN (pN3+) with more than 10 removed LN?(3)In pN + patients is the prognostic value of the lymph node ratio (LNR) of pN+/pN removed impaired if 10 or less LN are removed? SN - 1471-2407 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-019-5292-2 DO - 10.1186/s12885-019-5292-2 ID - Ebner2019 ER -