Multimodal Gene Expression Deep Learning for Predicting Sentinel Lymph Node Macro-metastasis in Early Breast Cancer: Development and Validation in the SCAN-B Cohort.
BACKGROUND This study evaluates DL using GEX and preoperatively available clinical data (PreopClinic) to predict SLNM, and explores their potential for guiding axillary surgery and prognostic assessment. METHODS We retrospectively included 6,836 clinically node-negative T1-T2 patients with invasive breast cancer who...