The NCCN’s updated guidelines for the treatment of breast cancer include updates on sentinel lymph node biopsy, ovarian function suppression, and the use of prognostic tools.

The sentinel node is the first lymph node that filters lymphatic fluid from the tissue surrounding a tumor. As the first node in the lymph circulatory system “downstream” from the tumor, this is more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Owing to the high incidence of lymph node metastasis in penile carcinoma, elective bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy is often performed; however, this procedure is unnecessary in up to 80% of ...

Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy is associated with increased melanoma-specific survival (i.e., survival until death from melanoma) among patients with node-positive intermediate-thickness melanomas (1.2 to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy can be considered for node-negative, HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast ...

A lymph node biopsy is a test that checks for disease in your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, oval-shaped organs located in different parts of your body. They’re found close to internal organs ...

Breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes may be treated more aggressively than localized cancer, because it has a greater potential to travel to other parts of the body. You have thousands of ...

Platinum-Based Chemotherapy in Metastatic Prostate Cancer With DNA Repair Gene Alterations Genes with functional roles in melanoma metastasis were discovered by analysis of next-generation sequencing ...