A prospective trial found that marking sentinel lymph nodes during mastectomy allowed surgeons to safely postpone biopsy ...

Patients with locally advanced breast cancer whose lymph nodes appear cancer-free after chemotherapy given before surgery may ...

A systematic review of five non-randomised studies finds the evidence too uncertain to support sentinel lymph node biopsy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy can be considered for node-negative, HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast ...

The sentinel node is the first lymph node that filters lymphatic fluid from the tissue surrounding a tumor. As the first node in the lymph circulatory system “downstream” from the tumor, this is more ...

New recommendations regarding the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with early stage breast cancer were issued by The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and published in the ...

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 prognostic factors in early breast cancer is spread to axillary nodes. Sentinel lymph node biopsy is now widely used to determine the need for axillary node dissection. Chung ...

Neck lymph node status is the most important factor for prognosis in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Sentinel node detection reliably predicts the lymph node status in melanoma and breast ...

A recent prospective trial showed sentinel lymph node surgery has a clinically significant high false negative rate in breast cancer patients with node-positive disease receiving neoadjuvant ...

The role of sentinel lymph node biopsy in microinvasive breast carcinoma is unclear. We examined the incidence of lymph node metastasis in patients with microinvasive carcinoma who underwent surgery ...

Most breast cancers move in fairly predictable ways, and depending on the type and location of your tumor, your doctor may recommend a sentinel node biopsy as a means of determining whether your ...