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Breast Cancer
Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer
October 6th, 2005
New findings from the United Kingdom, Australia and Greece describe advances in breast cancer. Study 1: Researchers evaluated the level of morbidity after sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in primary breast cancer patients. "Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) as part of surgical treatment for patients with breast cancer is associated with significant morbidity. SLNB is a newly developed method of staging the axilla and has the potential to avoid an ALND in lymph node-negative patients, thereby minimizing morbidity. The aim of this study was to investigate physical and psychological morbidity after SLNB in the treatment of early breast cancer in a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-06)
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