Evaluation of Different Imaging Modalities in Regional Nodes Staging in Breast Cancer Patient
The regional lymph node status is considered to be an important prognostic factor regarding the long-term survival of breast cancer (BC) patients (Cetin IA, et al . 2020). The knowledge of whether lymph nodes are tumor-infiltrated or not is essential since nodal involvement has decisive therapeutic consequences such as axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), axillary radiotherapy, and neoadjuvant or adjuvant systemic chemotherapy (Diessner J et al . 2023). To provide individualized therapeutic options and optimized therapy.
• Patient consenting to participate in the study.
• Patients who can tolerate the imaging modalities and have proven to tolerate the contrast agents . 3) Breast cancer patients coming for an initial assessment with or without clinical regional lymph nodes positive status.
⁃ 4\) Breast cancer patients planned to have(breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy)as well as lymph node surgeries(sentinel lymph node v biopsy and/or axillary lymph node dissection.