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 ...

In a study published March 23, scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering reported that a blood test called a liquid biopsy can identify mutations responsible for resistance to a new class of drugs called ...

This study recruited 65 women of whom 94% were node-positive, and 60% were hormone receptor-negative. The pCR rate was 41.5% and 53.8% for the whole cohort and the hormone receptor–negative subgroup, ...

Women whose mammograms reveal a suspicious lesion need a needle biopsy to confirm or rule out cancer. But if that biopsy reveals only abnormal -- not cancerous -- cells, is a more extensive evaluation ...

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 ...

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Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who are treated with breast-conserving surgery are sometimes also subjected to an extra procedure, a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), even though this ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AI-analyzed fragmentomes and protein biomarkers better distinguished women with ovarian cancer in screening.

CHICAGO -- Radiologists are using an unusual approach, hypnosis, to ease patient pain and anxiety during breast biopsy procedures. A new study from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard ...

Doctors perform vulvar biopsies to collect tissue samples for laboratory testing. They examine the cells for any abnormalities that might be malignant, or cancerous. Sex and gender exist on spectrums.

Doramay Bailey got the bad news last year. Her annual mammogram at the county’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in Willowbrook revealed a lump in her left breast. She ...