The aim of this prospective clinical study was to evaluate early and late complications of different surgical procedures, and compare conservative surgical treatments (breast conserving surgery, ...

Prospective Multicentric Randomized Study Comparing Periareolar and Peritumoral Injection of Radiotracer and Blue Dye for the Detection of Sentinel Lymph Node in Breast Sparing Procedures: FRANSENODE ...

For breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node, axillary radiotherapy (ART) might be a better option than surgery to remove the nodes because it is associated with less morbidity and fewer ...

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 ...

Patients with lymph node-positive breast cancer may still avoid extensive axillary surgery if they have clear nodes after systemic therapy, data from a prospective registry showed. Patients with clear ...

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 ...

Seroma and prolonged lymphorrhea are among the most frequent complications following axillary lymphadenectomy in patients with breast cancer. Such complications can delay recovery and postpone the ...

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 ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...

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 ...