TNBC (Triple-Negative Breast Cancer) is a diverse clinical and pathological entity around 15/20th of all BC (Breast Cancer) cases. This type of breast cancer has a high peril of subsequent and a terrible prognostic. Chemotherapy is a more effective technique for treating TNBC since it lacks the ER (Oestrogen Receptor), PR (Progesterone Receptor), and HER2 (Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2). CSC (The Cancer Stem Cell) hypothesis has significant diagnostic insinuation for cancer treatments owing to potential task of CSC in chemo-resistance. The most important prognostic variables in BC are the axillary lymph node condition, and that is a core part of the staging system. The CSC markers in BC are CD44, CD24, and ALDH 1, played a predictive role in TNBCs. Most of these indicators are in primary tumours, it lead to the capacity to identify individuals at increased risk of lymph node metastasis at the period of diagnosis, enabling earlier intervention and more appropriate adjuvant therapies. Unlike, chemotherapy, radiation, and other medications, this combination of indicators might be used to assess tumour development and predicting prognosis. The objective of this study is to investigate if the CSC markers CD44, CD24, and ALDH 1 in the axillary lymph nodes had any predictive significance in TNBC based on pathological responses.

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