Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...

Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...

The concept of skipping axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in some patients with breast cancer was supported by a European noninferiority trial. Among patients with early-stage, node-negative ...

Neoadjuvant dose-dense anthracycline and cyclophosphamide in combination with carboplatin, paclitaxel, and pembrolizumab for triple-negative breast cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. This ...

Dr. Kandace P. McGuire discusses how targeted axillary staging differs from traditional methods of staging in patients undergoing breast cancer treatment. Targeted axillary dissection is used for ...

The management of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer is continually evolving. Recent data now support omitting axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in most patients with metastases in up to two ...

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) resection has been advocated as an option to reduce morbidity for women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. When the sentinel node is negative for breast cancer, SLN ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Before the advent of SLN biopsy, axillary dissection was ...

Previous trials have shown that omission of axillary-lymph-node dissection does not appear to affect important outcomes. New research findings extend those findings and are summarized in a short video ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hispanic, Black and Asian women experience more subjective arm swelling compared with white women after axillary ...

Strength training may be getting underdosed among women who undergo mastectomy or axillary lymph node dissection for breast ...

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 ...