The word "dissection" may conjure images of a high school biology lab full of frogs or sheep's eyeballs in various stages of deconstruction. But an axillary node dissection is a decidedly different ...

MIAMI BEACH -- The surgical dogma favoring axillary dissection in breast cancer continues to give way to more selective data-driven strategies that allow more women to avoid axillary surgery, an ...

In the AXSANA/EUBREAST 3(R) study, researchers compared data about recurrence outcomes of more-invasive and less-invasive lymph node procedures.

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, ...

Axillary lymph node dissection did not improve survival outcomes in a cohort of women with T1-T2 breast cancer who had received sentinel node dissection, according to study results. Eligible women had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CHICAGO — Long-term survival outcomes from the ACOSOG Z0011 trial supported the initial finding of ...

Extended Perineal Resection of Distal Rectal Cancers: Surgical Advance, Increased Utilization of Neoadjuvant Therapies, Proper Patient Selection or All of the Above? The quick answer is that avoidance ...

Is axillary dissection necessary in breast cancer patients who have microscopic but nonpalpable axillary node disease? The investigators of this multicenter trial randomly assigned 465 patients to ...

New recommendations regarding the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with early stage breast cancer were issued by The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and published in the ...

The word “dissection” may conjure images of a high school biology lab full of frogs or sheep’s eyeballs in various stages of deconstruction. But an axillary node dissection is a decidedly different ...

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 ...