These practice-changing results show that — despite the potential for residual axillary disease after sentinel lymph node dissection alone — omission of axillary lymph node dissection does not ...

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 ...

More conservative treatment options for women with node-positive breast cancer include SLNB and targeted axillary dissection. However, data comparing patient outcomes after targeted axillary ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized ...