AGO Breast Committee recommendations for the surgical therapy of breast cancer: Working Group on Gynecologic…

GuidelineEuropean journal of surgical oncology : the journal of the European Society of Surgical Oncology and the British Association of Surgical Oncology· Jul 2026

AGO Breast Committee recommendations for the surgical therapy of breast cancer: Working Group on Gynecologic Cancers (AGO) update 2026.

Maggie Banys-Paluchowski, Christine Solbach, Thorsten Kühn … Marc Thill

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Following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ALND is indicated only when macrometastatic disease is detected in the sentinel and/or in the target lymph node.

AGO Breast Committee recommendations for the surgical therapy of breast cancer: Working Group on Gynecologic Cancers (AGO) update 2026.

Maggie Banys-Paluchowski … Marc Thill

European journal of surgical oncology · Jul 2026 · Q1 in General Medicine

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The German Guideline Committee (AGO: Working Group on Gynecologic Cancers) updated its yearly recommendations on the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in March 2026.

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Targeted axillary dissection (targeted axillary dissection) is endorsed as the method of choice [AGO ++] in patients converting from cN + to ycN0 status, and other de-escalated techniques (sentinel lymph node biopsy, target lymph node biopsy [TLNB]) are also possible options [AGO +].

AGO Breast Committee recommendations for the surgical therapy of breast cancer: Working Group on Gynecologic Cancers (AGO) update 2026.

AGO Breast Committee recommendations for the surgical therapy of breast cancer: Working Group on Gynecologic Cancers (AGO) update 2026.

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