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 ...

Dr. Rosenberg answers the question: 'When Is Sentinel Node Biopsy Considered?' — -- Question: When is a sentinel node biopsy considered, and when is an axillary lymph node dissection necessary?

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 ...

June 10, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Routine use of completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is not needed in women with breast cancer who have only 1 or 2 positive sentinel lymph nodes because ...

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 ...

Pamela Kedziera answers: 'How Will I Feel After Lymph Node Dissection?' — -- Question: What are some possible sensations I may feel in my hand and arm after an axillary lymph node dissection, and ...

Axillary lymph node dissection did not improve survival outcomes in a cohort of women with T1-T2 breast cancer who had received sentinel node dissection, according to study results. Eligible women had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...