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, ...

Upfront sentinel lymph node biopsy permitted the avoidance of axillary lymph node dissection in most patients with cN1 ...

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 ...

The Combination of p53 Mutation and neu/erbB-2 Amplification Is Associated With Poor Survival in Node-Negative Breast Cancer Axillary dissection is the standard management of the axilla in invasive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Response-guided axillary treatment using an approach known as the MARI protocol can safely spare many women with node-positive breast cancer from axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) after ...

Objective: To provide information and recommendations to women with breast cancer and their physicians regarding what is now known about sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy. Options: Axillary dissection; ...

A new procedure improves the accuracy of axillary staging and pathologic evaluation in clinically node-positive breast cancer, and reduces the need for a more invasive procedure with debilitating ...

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 ...

What is an Axillary Lymph Node Dissection? To understand this procedure, we have Dr. Hari Krishna Ahuja, Head of Oncology Department from Apollo Healthcare Hospital, Greater Noida. He says that lymph ...