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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is a clinical procedure in which the sentinel lymph node is removed and tested for the presence of cancer cells. If the result of an SNB is negative, it can suggest that ...

Extended Perineal Resection of Distal Rectal Cancers: Surgical Advance, Increased Utilization of Neoadjuvant Therapies, Proper Patient Selection or All of the Above? The quick answer is that avoidance ...

New research led by King's College London suggests that a simple test already used in clinics could provide valuable additional insights into how the body's immune system responds to cancer, without ...

Triple-negative breast cancer comprises 10% to 15% of breast cancers, mostly in women who are premenopausal, Black, and BRCA1 positive. A 34-year-old Hispanic woman with no significant medical or ...

Axillary lymph nodes are kidney bean-shaped organs in the underarm area and are part of the lymphatic system. The interior of the lymph nodes contain lymphocytes and macrophages in abundance. The ...