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 ...

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 ...

Risk factor for axillary lymph node metastases in microinvasive breast cancer. Background: The study of the sentinel node biopsy is a common method to assess axillary involvement before surgical ...

Axillary lymph nodes are kidney bean-shaped organs in the underarm area and are part of the lymphatic system. The interior of the lymph nodes contain lymphocytes and macrophages in abundance. The ...

Whether a tumor is lobular or a non-special type does not independently predict sentinel node status, as both histological groups demonstrate comparable frequencies of nodal spread and pathological ...

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 ...

A sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is a clinical procedure in which the sentinel lymph node is removed and tested for the presence of cancer cells. If the result of an SNB is negative, it can suggest that ...

Women with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative breast cancer who have one positive sentinel node and no high-risk features can likely be spared ...

Women who are found to have isolated breast cancer cells upon sentinel lymph node biopsy have a risk of having metastases in other lymph nodes. Women who are found to have isolated breast cancer cells ...

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, ...