Breast Cancer (Biopsy)

Misdiagnosis Looms As Demand Increases for New Cancer Biopsy

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 10th, 1999

A multi-center study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in October 1998 showed that sentinel lymph node biopsy - the removal of some of the first lymph nodes into which cancerous cells from the breast might drain - is as effective for determining the spread of disease as totally removing all the lymph nodes under the arm.

That journal report and subsequent media coverage helped trigger an ongoing demand for sentinel lymph node biopsy among women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.

These patients are candidates for either breast-preserving therapy or mastectomy. They see in sentinel node biopsy an alternative to complete axillary...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1999-05-10)

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