A pilot study suggests that sustainable breast cancer surgery can be introduced in the operating room without undermining ...

A meta-analysis of 13 studies showed that patients who underwent sentinel node biopsy had a significantly reduced risk of death from melanoma. In addition, an analysis of nine studies showed that the ...

Study results were recently shared at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) 2026 Annual Meeting in Phoenix.NCCN Cutaneous Melanoma Guidelines ...

The sentinel node is the first lymph node to receive lymphatic drainage from a tumour and is usually the first site of metastases. Today, the sentinel node is used for tumour staging. Here, we focus ...

Sentinel node mapping for patients with breast cancer and clinically negative axilla has become the standard of care in many cancer centers. While it is well documented that this technique accurately ...

Older women with a very early, non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) gain no long-term benefit from undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has ...

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 ...

Preoperative Therapy in Invasive Breast Cancer: Reviewing the State of the Science and Exploring New Research Directions The sentinel node procedure is an adequate tool to identify lymph node ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Similar proportions of older women with node-negative and node-positive early breast cancer had Oncotype Dx ...

Lymph node status in stage I hormone receptor-positive/HER2-negative breast cancer was not a good indicator of genetic-risk scores that would qualify older women for ...

The lymphatic system is a specialized transport network in the body much like the circulatory system. The lymphatic system is composed of: Lymphatic vessels are thin-walled vessels generally larger ...