Early toxicity results with 3D conformal external beam therapy (CEBT) from the NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413 accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) trial. Background: Although widely applied, data from ...

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, ...

There is no consensus method for the histological analysis of axillary sentinel nodes (SN). This study aimed to (1) assess the rate of occult metastases in SN using large serial sectioning and ...

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 ...

The word “dissection” may conjure images of a high school biology lab full of frogs or sheep’s eyeballs in various stages of deconstruction. But an axillary node dissection is a decidedly different ...

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 ...

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; ...

Cancer is a serious ailment that requires proper diagnosis and care. Any type of cancer is seriously dangerous to health and has life-threatening consequences. Same is the case with breast cancer, 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 ...

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 ...