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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) resection has been advocated as an option to reduce morbidity for women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. When the sentinel node is negative for breast cancer, SLN ...

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 ...

Neoadjuvant dose-dense anthracycline and cyclophosphamide in combination with carboplatin, paclitaxel, and pembrolizumab for triple-negative breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. This ...

For breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node, axillary radiotherapy (ART) might be a better option than surgery to remove the nodes because it is associated with less morbidity and fewer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hispanic, Black and Asian women experience more subjective arm swelling compared with white women after axillary ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A novel procedure could now spare breast cancer patients an invasive surgical procedure on their lymphatic system. At MD Anderson Cancer Center, doctors have ...

Ovarian granulosa cell tumors are a rare type of ovarian cancer that affect the ovaries and fallopian tubes, and can extend further into the pelvis and lymph nodes. Treatment typically follows the ...

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 ...