Until the past several years, conventional teaching has been that appropriate therapy for breast cancer includes removal of the axillary lymph node drainage area. The authors from this experienced ...

Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...

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, ...

The benefit of regional nodal irradiation in the treatment of breast cancer is well established for patients with pathologically positive axillary nodes, but whether it is also beneficial for patients ...

Metastases that were 2 millimeters or less in diameter ("micrometastases") in axillary lymph nodes detected on examination of a single section of the lymph nodes were associated with poorer ...

Intraoperative frozen section of axillary lymph nodes for the detection of metastatic breast cancer has been controversial because of the labor-intensive techniques necessary to obtain a highly ...

Axillary lymph nodes are kidney bean-shaped organs in the underarm area and are part of the lymphatic system. The interior of the lymph nodes contain lymphocytes and macrophages in abundance. The ...

Platinum-based chemotherapy in triple-negative breast cancer. Background: Whether SLN biopsy (SLNB) should be performed in patients with DCIS is controversial. Many centers perform SLNB in DCIS ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD Key Takeaways An armpit lump, also called axillary lump, can be a symptom of breast cancer.A healthcare provider should check any hard armpit lump that doesn't ...

Triple-negative breast cancer comprises 10% to 15% of breast cancers, mostly in women who are premenopausal, Black, and BRCA1 positive. A 34-year-old Hispanic woman with no significant medical or ...