# OnCo record axillary-surgery-de-escalation (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/axillary-surgery-de-escalation/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "axillary-surgery-de-escalation" ;
  schema:name "Doing less to the armpit"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "axillary de-escalation"@en, "axillary surgery de-escalation"@en, "omission of axillary dissection"@en, "axillary management"@en ;
  schema:description "Over thirty years surgeons went from clearing every lymph node in the armpit, to taking only the first one or two, to leaving even a cancerous node in place, to not operating on the armpit at all in low-risk cases. At each step the cancer outcome stayed the same and the arm got better."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/axillary-surgery-de-escalation/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-25"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41523-025-00744-9>, <https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng101> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/sentinel-lymph-node-biopsy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lymphadenectomy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/breast-cancer-related-lymphoedema/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/targeted-axillary-dissection/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-her2-positive/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/tnbc/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/sentinel-node/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/nsabp-b04/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/nsabp-b32/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/almanac/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/ibcsg-23-01/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/acosog-z0011/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/amaros/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/senomac/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/sound/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/insema/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/posnoc/> .