Colon Cancer
New Colon Cancer Research from European Institute of Oncology Discussed
Published in Cancer Weekly, January 10th, 2012
2012 JAN 10 -- According to the authors of recent research published in the journal Colorectal Disease, "Lymphatic mapping (LM) and sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification by blue dye in colon cancer is a procedure feasible during minimally invasive surgery, with good specificity, but still a low sensitivity (78% in our series). These results are in accordance with the literature and have limited more widespread diffusion of the method, both as a tool for upstaging and more controversially, as a potential roadmap to a tailored lymphadenectomy."
"It is possible to improve the results of LM with careful selection of patients and by the use of an...
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