Less-invasive lymph node procedures are noninferior to axillary lymph node dissection for 3-year recurrence outcomes in breast cancer patients.

Crucially, the analysis demonstrated that less invasive procedures like TAD/SLNB/TLNB are noninferior to ALND in terms of axillary recurrence based on the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new procedure developed by surgeons at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center improves the accuracy of axillary staging and pathologic evaluation in clinically node-positive breast cancer ...

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 ...

Is axillary node dissection beneficial in patients with T1 or T2 breast cancer whose initial therapy is lumpectomy and tangential breast irradiation? The authors performed a randomized controlled ...

Is axillary dissection necessary in breast cancer patients who have microscopic but nonpalpable axillary node disease? The investigators of this multicenter trial randomly assigned 465 patients to ...