"Our findings suggest that, in the condition of negative sentinel lymph nodes, omitting pelvic lymphadenectomy does not ...

In this randomized, non-inferiority trial, the omission of surgical axillary staging was noninferior to sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with clinically node-negative, T1 or T2 invasive breast ...

In patients with a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy, omitting pelvic lymphadenectomy does not compromise disease-free ...

The following is a summary of “Geographic and racial disparities in the quality of surgical care among patients with ...

Are lymph nodes removed during a mastectomy? During a mastectomy, most people have a sentinel lymph node biopsy. This is a procedure that removes 1 or more lymph nodes from the underarm area. These ...

Whether surgical axillary staging can be omitted without compromising survival in women with early-stage breast cancer undergoing breast-conserving therapy has been unclear. New research findings ...

Dr. Kandace P. McGuire discusses how targeted axillary staging differs from traditional methods of staging in patients ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

In 2024, SkylineDx announced that it had validated Merlin, its Clinical-Pathologic and Gene Expression Profile (CP-GEP) test for the identification of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) status in ...

Teddi Mellencamp was diagnosed with melanoma in 2022. Since then, she's had multiple biopsies, surgeries and the cancer has ...