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Breast Cancer
Patients with negative node biopsy and no axillary dissection were cancer free
April 14th, 2005
According to recent research, the risk of later developing breast cancer was low for patients with a negative sentinel node biopsy and no axillary dissection. "Sentinel node biopsy in patients with breast carcinoma accurately predicts the axillary nodal status. However, in some 6% of patients with negative sentinel nodes the remaining axillary nodes harbor metastases. Our purpose was to observe a large number of patients who did not undergo an axillary dissection after a negative sentinel node biopsy for the appearance of overt axillary metastases," scientists writing in the European Journal of Cancer reported. "Nine hundred and fifty-three...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-14)
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