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 ...

Omitting axillary lymph node dissection does not increase the risk for recurrence or compromise 5-year overall survival outcomes in patients with early-stage, node-negative breast cancer with sentinel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Women with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative breast cancer who have one positive sentinel node and no high-risk features can likely be spared ...

Upfront sentinel lymph node biopsy permitted the avoidance of axillary lymph node dissection in most patients with cN1 ...

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 ...

Omission of breast surgery for predicted pCR patients with MRI and vacuum-assisted biopsy in breast cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: A multicenter, single-arm, non-inferiority trial (OPTIMIST ...

Future breast cancer treatment options may not only increase patients’ survival but also reduce or eliminate their need for surgery altogether, says breast cancer surgeon Sara Javid, MD, Fred ...

Timing of palliative care referral and symptom burden in phase I cancer patients: A retrospective cohort study. Background: Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) can increase the risk of upper ...

Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a pea to a little bean, which are located throughout the body. Lymph nodes are one of the components of the lymphatic system. There are ...