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, ...

Clinical Use of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Testing in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer by Physicians: Survey of US and International Patterns A prospectively maintained database was assessed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — Omission of completion axillary lymph node dissection did not increase recurrence among patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — Axillary radiotherapy and axillary lymph node dissection appeared associated with excellent and ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Before the advent of SLN biopsy, axillary dissection was ...

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 ...

One of the most important incremental steps in breast cancer has been to lessen the amount of axillary surgery that is needed to stage breast cancer. Sentinel node biopsy appears to lead a much lower ...

Patients with breast cancer routinely undergo complete axillary lymph-node dissection (ALND) as part of the surgical approach to treatment. Whether it is necessary to remove this often healthy tissue ...

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 ...