Less commonly, the pain—referred to as axillary pain—may be due to an autoimmune or arterial disease, nerve compression, and malignancies like breast cancer.The diagnosis of armpit pain may involve ...

Kosty, medical director of thoracic oncology at Scripps MD Anderson ... stage 1 tumors and/or have begun to spread to nearby lymph nodes Stage 3: typically has spread to lymph nodes located ...

surgeons will also analyze your lymph nodes to ensure cancer cells have not spread. We are one of the only cancer centers in the United States to offer robotic surgery using the Intuitive da Vinci® ...