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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The sentinel nodes are the first lymph nodes breast cancer cells spread to when they leave the breast. Your doctor will locate the sentinel lymph node. They’ll put a small amount of blue tracer dye, ...

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 ...

A new kind of mammogram is helping detect breast cancer earlier. It’s not widely available yet, but two local hospitals are ahead of the curve.