Dr. Ko Un “Clara” Park and Dr. Mylin Torres present the latest evidence-based changes to the SLNB in early-stage breast cancer guideline. They discuss the practice-changing trials that led to the ...

Novel multi-omic biosignature for identification of early-stage invasive breast cancer patients who do and do not benefit from adjuvant radiation treatment after breast conservation surgery. This is ...

Biopsy of the sentinel lymph node, the first lymph node to which fluid from a primary breast tumor drains, was associated with better arm function and better quality of life compared with standard ...

A gene expression-based test identifies patients with primary cutaneous melanoma at a lower or higher risk for sentinel lymph ...

(HealthDay News) — The American Society of Clinical Oncology has updated its clinical practice guideline on the use of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) in early breast cancer. The updated guideline was ...

Among patients with early-stage, node-negative breast cancer and one or two sentinel node macrometastases, those who underwent sentinel node biopsy only had noninferior 5-year recurrence-free survival ...

Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...

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 ...