Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are developing nonsurgical methods for identifying critical lymph nodes to help doctors determine courses of treatment for breast cancer patients ...

Lymphatic mapping, a recent technique first developed for the management of melanoma, is based on the concept that information about the status of the entire lymphatic drainage from a tumor site could ...

The SenSzi (GBG80) Trial 1 has assessed the contribution of information derived from lymphoscintigraphy in improving the performance of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy procedure in cN0 breast ...

Limited data are available on survival outcomes after sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone as compared with lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer. In this multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial, we ...

Phase II study of combined docetaxel, epirubicin, and cyclophosphamide as a neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen in patients with locally advanced breast cancer in a single institution. Background: The ...

The sentinel lymph node (SLN) is the lymph node that represents the 'gate-keeper' of the lymphatic basin; it is the first node to receive lymphatic drainage from the site of the primary tumor. SLN ...

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 ...