Removal of armpit lymph nodes can leave many breast cancer patients with lingering lymphedema, a painful and unsightly swelling of the arm. Now, new Swedish research may help narrow down which ...

This means that we can safely omit the extensive removal of axillary lymph nodes in patients who achieve a pCR in the MARI node after primary systemic treatment." The axillary recurrence rate in the ...

After an average of 44 months (with a range of 26-62 months), the rate of cancer recurrence in the axillary nodes was 2.9% in the 103 patients who received radiation alone with no further lymph node ...

It is possible to leave most of the lymph nodes in the armpit, even if one or two of them have metastases larger than two millimeters? This is shown in a trial enrolling women from five countries, led ...

Patients with lymph node-positive breast cancer may still avoid extensive axillary surgery if they have clear nodes after systemic therapy, data from a prospective registry showed. Patients with clear ...

This study is aimed to develop and validate a novel nomogram model that can preoperatively predict axillary lymph node pathological complete response (pCR) after NAT and avoid unnecessary axillary ...

Luminal breast cancer (BC) with axillary lymph node (ALN) metastasis is typically treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Theoretically, patients who achieve pathological lymph node complete ...

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 ...

An interview with Dr. Muriel Brackstone from London Health Sciences Centre and Dr. Tari King from Dana Farber and Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, authors on “Management of the Axilla in Early-Stage ...

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 ...

Milan, Italy: Patients with breast cancer that has started to spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit can safely avoid extensive removal of the lymph nodes if their treatment is tailored to their ...

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, ...