Abstract:Objective To investigate the relationship between sentinel lymph node biopsy results and molecular typing of breast cancer. Methods Totally 302 patients with early breast cancer treated with total mastectomy or breast conserving surgery plus sentinel lymph node biopsy from January 2015 to December 2018 were enrolled in this study. The expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER) -2 and Ki-67 were detected by immunohistochemistry. Then patients were divided into Luminal A type, Luminal B type, HER- 2 positive type and three negative types. The relationship between sentinel lymph node metastasis and molecular type was analyzed. Results Among 302 patients, 81 were sentinel lymph node positive and 221 were sentinel lymph node negative. Among them, 134 (44.37%) were Luminal A, where 31 (23.13%) were sentinel lymph node positive; 91 (30.13%) were Luminal B, where 37 (40.66%) were sentinel lymph node positive; 32 (10.60%) were HER-2 positive, where 7 (21.88%) were sentinel lymph node positive; 45 (14.90%) were tri-negative, where 6 (16.22%) were sentinel lymph node positive. the proportion of positive sentinel lymph nodes in age ≤ 52 years, T2 stage and Luminal B type was higher than that in negative group (P < 0.05). TNM stage was the risk factor of sentinel lymph node positive [Ol ^ R = 3.531, (95% CI: 1.936, 6.438), P = 0.000]; meanwhile, Luminal A [(Ol ^ R = 0.242, (95% CI: 0.121, 0.483), P = 0.000], and age [Ol ^ R = 0.202, (95% CI: 0.101, 0.405), P = 0.000] were the protective factors; age [Ol ^ R = 0.250, (95% CI: 0.063, 0.987), P = 0.000] was the protective factor of positive sentinel lymph nodes; the age of detection group ≤ 52 years old, T2 stage, the number of positive sentinel lymph nodes ≥ 2, the proportion of sentinel lymph nodes macrometastases were higher than that of non detection group (P < 0.05); the number of sentinel lymph nodes positive ≥ 2 [Ol ^ R = 27.926, (95% CI: 6.433, 121.222), P = 0.000], the number of sentinel lymph nodes macrometastases [Ol ^ R = 10.662, (95% CI: 1.620, 70.177), P = 0.014] were the risk factors of non sentinel lymph node metastasis. Conclusion Molecular type is associated with sentinel lymph node positivity. The risk of sentinel lymph node positivity in Luminal A patients is lower than that in Luminal B patients. But there is no significant relationship between molecular typing and non-sentinel lymph node metastasis.