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Breast Cancer
Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of breast cancer
December 29th, 2005
New findings from Italy and Belgium describe advances in breast cancer. Study 1: Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy without axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) was not followed by axillary short-term recurrence in breast cancer patients. Researchers in Italy conducted a study "to determine the axillary recurrence rate in breast cancer patients with negative sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) who did not undergo further ALND, and to establish whether this conservative axillary approach leads to an increased recourse to diagnostic axillary biopsy during the follow-up period because of the clinical suspicion of nodal recurrence." "In 479...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-29)
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