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 ...

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 ...

Patients with breast cancer routinely undergo complete axillary lymph-node dissection (ALND) as part of the surgical approach to treatment. Whether it is necessary to remove this often healthy tissue ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A total of 333 patients were included in the study. The SLN could be identified in 328 out of 333 patients, calculating an identification rate of 98.5%. SLNs were positive for metastases in 128 out of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — Axillary radiotherapy and axillary lymph node dissection appeared associated with excellent and ...

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 ...

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 ...

These practice-changing results show that — despite the potential for residual axillary disease after sentinel lymph node dissection alone — omission of axillary lymph node dissection does not affect ...