For patients with early breast cancer with negative axillary lymph nodes, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) can largely avoid complications such as upper limb lymphoedema caused by axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). Locally advanced breast cancer requires neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), based on the breast cancer treatment guidelines. In addition to shrinking the primary breast lesion, NAC can reduce the stage for axillary positive lymph nodes. Therefore, in recent years clinicians have been considering SLNB for patients whose axillary lymph nodes have turned negative after NAC. After veri
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