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A large multicenter study has established that sentinel node tumor burden, according to the Rotterdam Criteria, is the most important prognostic factor for overall survival. The results of this ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

for somebody who's had just a sentinel lymph node biopsy of one or two [or] three nodes, it can drop to 5%.” Axillary surgery involves the removal lymph nodes in the armpit region, while a sentinel ...

Background: Breast-preserving surgery (Bp) and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) are established as standard treatment for axillary lymph node-negative early breast cancer. Methods: A surgical ...

Because again, it's not the breast surgery that causes the risk, it is their lymph node removal during the axillary dissection or the sentinel lymph node biopsy that puts you at risk. So, if you have ...