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 ...

Response-guided axillary treatment using an approach known as the MARI protocol can safely spare many women with node-positive breast cancer from axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) after ...

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, ...

A new procedure developed by surgeons at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center improves the accuracy of axillary staging and pathologic evaluation in clinically node-positive breast cancer ...

Clinical Use of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Testing in Patients With Advanced Lung Cancer by Physicians: Survey of US and International Patterns A prospectively maintained database was assessed ...

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 ...

Each year, more than 60,000 women with breast cancer are diagnosed with axillary metastasis. Until recently, the standard of care was for these patients to undergo a complete axillary lymph node ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with breast cancer had similar survival whether they underwent completion axillary lymph node ...

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 ...

A new procedure developed by surgeons at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center improves the accuracy of axillary staging and pathologic evaluation in clinically node-positive breast cancer ...

What is an Axillary Lymph Node Dissection? To understand this procedure, we have Dr. Hari Krishna Ahuja, Head of Oncology Department from Apollo Healthcare Hospital, Greater Noida. He says that lymph ...