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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The most commonly accepted prognostic factors for proposing adjuvant systemic therapy in breast cancer (BC) include patient age, tumor size, axillary lymph node status, tumor pathology including grade ...

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 ...

Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is an innovative approach for axillary staging in breast cancer patients with initially node-positive disease that converts to clinically node-negative status after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phase 1b/2 trial of BI 836845, an insulin-like growth factor (IGF) ligand-neutralizing antibody, combined with exemestane (Ex) and everolimus (Ev) in hormone receptor-positive (HR+) locally advanced ...

Timing of palliative care referral and symptom burden in phase I cancer patients: A retrospective cohort study. Background: Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) can increase the risk of upper ...

Dr. Kandace P. McGuire discusses how targeted axillary staging differs from traditional methods of staging in patients undergoing breast cancer treatment. Targeted axillary dissection is used for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hispanic, Black and Asian women experience more subjective arm swelling compared with white women after axillary ...