MIAMI BEACH -- The surgical dogma favoring axillary dissection in breast cancer continues to give way to more selective data-driven strategies that allow more women to avoid axillary surgery, an ...
Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...
A total of 751 women clinically node negative post-NACT underwent LAS (excision of lymph node [LN] and fat below first intercostobrachial nerve). Of these women, 730 also underwent SNB by dual ...
Women with node-negative breast cancers 2 cm or smaller and negative preoperative axillary ultrasound results may be safely spared sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLN) biopsy, new research suggests. SLN ...
Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...
Obesity and Its Impact on Breast Cancer: Tumor Incidence, Recurrence, Survival, and Possible Interventions Table 1. Results of SLN Biopsy with and without ALND, by Size of SLN Metastasis, in ...
The word “dissection” may conjure images of a high school biology lab full of frogs or sheep’s eyeballs in various stages of deconstruction. But an axillary node dissection is a decidedly different ...
The NCCN’s updated guidelines for the treatment of breast cancer include updates on sentinel lymph node biopsy, ovarian ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Plasma cell-free DNA integrity assessed prior to surgery accurately predicted achievement of pathologic complete ...
Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...
Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward less ...