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Cancer Therapy
Researchers report details of new studies and findings in the area of Cancer Therapy
January 19th, 2006
Cancer Therapy data are the focus of recent research from the United States and Netherlands. Study 1: Sentinel lymph node dissection (SLND) could be used to manage lobular breast cancer. "Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) presents special challenges to treating physicians because of the diffuse infiltrative growth pattern. As SLND is rapidly replacing axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in the management of patients with early-stage breast cancer, we sought to evaluate the safety of SLND in providing axillary control in breast cancer patients with lobular histology and a negative sentinel node. We identified 239 patients with T1-2,N0,M0 lobular...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-19)
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