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Breast Cancer
Axilla scoring system predicted non-sentinel lymph node status in breast cancer
June 30th, 2005
Scientists claimed that an axilla scoring system predicted non-sentinel lymph node (SN) status in breast cancer patients. According to recent research published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, "Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is the current standard of care for breast cancer patients with SN involvement. However, the SN is the only involved axillary node in a significant proportion of these patients." "Here we examined factors predictive of non-SN involvement in patients with a metastatic SN, in order to develop a scoring system for predicting non-SN involvement. This study was based on a prospective database of 337...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-30)
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