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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A novel procedure could now spare breast cancer patients an invasive surgical procedure on their lymphatic system. At MD Anderson Cancer Center, doctors have ...

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 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 ...

Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...

Effect of bevacizumab on the risk of chemotherapy-associated anemia in cancer patients: A meta-analysis. Background: Arm lymphedema and limb morbidity in patients going through axillary lymph node ...

Jessica Zabel shut the door on her breast cancer returning when she chose to have a preventive double mastectomy, but another nightmare was just beginning. She started to feel constant pain on her rib ...