The Innovation Center of NanoMedicine has summarized the results of its collaborative research with Professor Kanjiro ...

It was 86.3% in sentinel lymph node biopsy versus 83.6% and the p-value was non-inferior at 0.02. And so we believe that it is safe for the select patients who are early stage with 1 to 2 positive ...

If we operate on a woman and perform a sentinel lymph node biopsy and any of the lymph nodes show tumor, the typical discussion you would then have with your surgeon is whether or not you need to ...

The technique of lymphatic mapping and sentinel-lymph-node biopsy was first proposed in the 1980s as a minimally invasive procedure for identifying patients with clinical stage I and stage II ...

A sentinel lymph node biopsy is a test to find these lymph nodes. Your doctor then checks to see they have cancer cells in them. If your doctor thinks you need a sentinel lymph node biopsy, you have ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy. Your doctor may suggest this if they want to see if cancer that you already have, like melanoma or breast cancer, has moved to a new spot.

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 limit ...

You have the sentinel nodes removed under general anaesthetic. This means you can’t eat and drink for a few hours beforehand. Your appointment letter will tell you exactly when to stop eating and ...

It was very hard to find, but it lit up like you could see it across the room,” Dr. Ryan Gabriel said.A recent study in the Lancet found that this scan detected three times as many invasive cancers in ...

The melanoma 31-gene expression profile test can help physicians to better estimate risk for sentinel lymph nodes, possibly reducing the need for biopsies, according to a study. “We are probably ...

With sentinel lymph node biopsy, surgeons can identify and remove only the first few lymph nodes that drain the breast. CURE spoke with Dr. Allison A. DiPasquale, director of breast oncology at Texas ...