SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized ...

These nodes are called sentinel nodes. They’re the first lymph nodes where cancer cells spread to when they leave the breast. If there’s cancer in the sentinel nodes, in some cases you may need more ...

The subtypes investigated in bladder cancer were CK19 ... Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy ...

Historically, treatment for breast cancer has been aggressive ... replace axillary dissection with sentinel [lymph] node biopsy [SLNB], give less radiotherapy in the form of partial breast ...

The diagnostic developed by UK firm Endomag can be used to detect 'sentinel' lymph nodes – the first lymph node to which cancer cells are most likely to spread from a primary tumour – showing ...

Lavanya (name changed), in her early 30s, recently came in for a routine health check-up. When her HPV DNA test came back ...

Women who have surgery for breast cancer often also have what's called a sentinel lymph node biopsy, in which a few lymph nodes in the armpit are removed to check for spreading cancer. Removing ...

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...