My 36-year-old sister recently noticed an unusual mole on her shoulder. She is scheduled for some tests. Her primary care ...

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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.

The diagnostic developed by UK firm Endomag can be used to detect 'sentinel' lymph nodes – the first lymph node to which cancer cells are most likely to spread from a primary tumour – showing ...

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...

Gynecologic oncology has shifted towards surgical de-escalation, emphasizing minimally invasive techniques and sentinel lymph node methods to reduce tissue injury while preserving oncologic outcomes.

Women having surgery for breast cancer often also have what's called a sentinel lymph node biopsy where a few lymph nodes in the armpit are removed to check for spreading cancer. But removing ...

In addition to our expertise in sentinel lymph node biopsy to reduce the risk of lymphedema, we offer the following surgical strategies to women with uterine cancer: The most common approach to this ...

Researchers analyzed the surgical de-escalation trends, including the use of minimally invasive surgery and sentinel lymph node dissection, as well as assessments of organ preservation during ...