Breast Cancer Epidemiology
Scientists at Stanford University, Department of Surgery target breast cancer epidemiology
Published in Women's Health Weekly, May 1st, 2008
Scientists discuss in 'New models and online calculator for predicting non-sentinel lymph node status in sentinel lymph node positive breast cancer patients' new findings in breast cancer. According to a study from the United States, "Current practice is to perform a completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for breast cancer patients with tumor-involved sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs), although fewer than half will have non-sentinel node (NSLN) metastasis. Our goal was to develop new models to quantify the risk of NSLN metastasis in SLN-positive patients and to compare predictive capabilities to another widely used model."
"We constructed three models to predict...
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