Tampa General Hospital Secures Funding to Establish Center for Lymphatic Education and Research

Tampa General Hospital has secured new funding to establish the Center for Lymphatic Education and Research (CLEAR), a ...
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Miguel Bronchud: Axillary Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer – Metastatic Spread or Immune Protection?

“Axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer- causing further metastatic spread? or ՛vaccinating patients against՛ it? Or both? The non-inferiority SENOMAC trial has confirmed that omitting completion ...
Frontiers

Trends, survival and regional control of sentinel lymph node biopsy versus axillary dissection in cN0 breast cancer: a multicenter cohort in China

Trials show that sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) can replace completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for selected cN0 patients without compromising survival but real-world evidence from non ...
Healio

‘Reassuring’: Omitting full axillary dissection does not worsen survival in breast cancer

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with breast cancer had similar survival whether they underwent completion axillary lymph node ...
ascopubs.org

Impact of targeted axillary dissection on axillary lymph node dissection rates compared with sentinel lymph node biopsy in cN1 breast cancer patients after neoadjuvant ...

Impact of neoadjuvant immunotherapy on safety of axillary de-escalation in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC): A propensity score–matched analysis. Technical failure rates of SLNB vs TAD. This is an ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Lymphatic Microsurgical Preventive Healing Approach (LYMPHA)

Lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach (LYMPHA) is a procedure to help prevent lymphedema after breast cancer surgeries such as mastectomies or breast reconstruction. Damon Cooney, ...
Cancer Therapy Advisor

Less-Invasive Lymph Node Procedures Noninferior to ALND for Breast Cancer Recurrence

The 3-year axillary RFS rate was 99.2% with axillary lymph node dissection and 98.8% with less-invasive procedures. Less-invasive lymph node procedures are noninferior to axillary lymph node ...
Targeted Oncology

Less Invasive Axillary Staging Is Noninferior to ALND in Post-NACT Node-Negative Breast Cancer

Less invasive procedures like TAD, SLNB, and TLNB show noninferiority to ALND in axillary recurrence-free survival for breast cancer patients post-NACT. The study's 3-year data indicate comparable ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Badwe, R., Hawaldar, R., Nair, N., et al. (2015) Surgical Removal of Primary Tumor and Axillary Lymph Nodes in Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer at First Presentation: A ...

ABSTRACT: We report a case of a 47-year-old woman who presented with a left breast mass and bloody nipple discharge. Work-up revealed triple-negative breast cancer with liver metastases, staged T3N1M1 ...
Medscape

Who Needs Axillary Dissection After Breast Cancer Treatment?

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 ...
Too Old to Operate

Axillary Management for Patients Undergoing Total Mastectomy and a Positive Sentinel Lymph Node: Is Axillary Dissection Necessary?

We sought to evaluate whether patients with breast cancer who undergo a total mastectomy (TM) can safely forgo a completion axillary lymph node dissection (cALND) in the presence of one to three ...