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Breast Cancer Treatment
Study shows benefit from sentinel lymph node mapping prior to salvage mastectomy
December 1st, 2005
Study shows some patients may benefit from sentinel lymph node mapping prior to salvage mastectomy. According to investigators from the United States, "Sentinel lymph node mapping as a constitutive component in the staging process for invasive breast cancer continues to gain acceptance." A. Agarwal and colleagues "have identified two patients with recurrent invasive breast cancer in whom contralateral sentinel lymph node uptake and metastases, respectively, were detected." The authors stated, "Such findings have not been previously reported in our review of the medical literature between 1966 and October 2004." "Sentinel lymph node mapping was...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-01)
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