Clinical relevance of the use of FDG PET/CT in locally advanced breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 Breast Cancer Symposium. This abstract does not include a full text ...

Patients with breast cancer may be able to avoid lymphedema, which can occur after surgery to remove lymph nodes in the ...

Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...

For patients with breast cancer with limited nodal disease after neoadjuvant therapy, axillary radiotherapy (ART) is as ...

Axillary clearance has been used as part of surgery for breast cancer. Biopsy of lymph node tissue helps in the staging of breast cancer, providing prognostic information and identifying patients who ...

The role of HER3 on HER2-driven gallbladder carcinogenesis and possible HER2/HER3 targeting therapy by pertuzumab for gallbladder canrcinoma No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is ...

Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy has replaced traditional axillary dissection, minimizing lymphedema risk in breast cancer surgery. The procedure targets the first draining lymph nodes, reducing unnecessary ...

Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward less ...

Breast surgeons at Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center have a new tool that allows them to pinpoint breast tumors more easily, with many benefits to the patient. The reflector ...