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Breast Cancer
New breast cancer study findings recently were reported by C.H.M. Vandeurzen and co-researchers
February 5th, 2009
"In-transit lymph node metastases are a common phenomenon in melanoma patients and have been increasingly recognised since the introduction of the Sentinel Node (SN) procedure. To which extent this also occurs in patients with breast cancer has not been studied yet," scientists in Netherlands report. "The aim of this study was therefore to explore the occurrence of in-transit lymph node metastases in patients with breast cancer. Afferent lymph vessels to the SN identified by blue dye were removed from 17 patients with breast cancer during a regular SN procedure. Three out of 17 patients showed a lymph node associated with the afferent lymph vessel. One of these lymph...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-02-05)
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