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 ...

Women with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative breast cancer who have one positive sentinel node and no high-risk features can likely be spared ...

To independently evaluate the impact of axillary surgery type and regional lymph node radiation (RLNR) on breast cancer–related lymphedema (BCRL) rates in patients with breast cancer. From 2005 to ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is one of the standard-of-care therapies for breast cancer (BC) with axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases. However, the response to this therapy varies depending on the ...

An analysis led by McMaster University researchers has found that women who undergo armpit lymph node surgery for breast cancer are much more likely to develop chronic pain. CMAJ today published their ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with early invasive breast cancer who did not receive axillary surgery had noninferior outcomes as ...

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 ...

Future breast cancer treatment options may not only increase patients’ survival but also reduce or eliminate their need for surgery altogether, says breast cancer surgeon Sara Javid, MD, Fred ...

More women could potentially be spared an axillary lymph node dissection -- the surgical removal of 10-20 lymph nodes -- a procedure that causes disabling arm swelling in up to 25% of women, according ...

Axillary reverse mapping (ARM) is an innovative surgical technique aimed at accurately delineating the lymphatic drainage of the upper extremity from that of the breast during axillary lymph node ...

The study in brief: interdisciplinary research // peer-reviewed publication // cohort study // number of patients in the study: 1,265 // statistical correlation // retrospective A project at Lund ...