Patients with locally advanced breast cancer whose lymph nodes appear cancer-free after chemotherapy given before surgery may ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is important to learn the correct technique for the breast exam to better discriminate between benign and possible malignant lesions. Common presenting complaints of breast disease are ...

Axillary lymphadenopathy occurs when your underarm (axilla) lymph nodes grow larger in size. It typically resolves on its own, but may sometimes occur with more serious causes. Finding a lump or ...

A 93-year-old woman with an eight-month history of a bleeding, ulcerated lesion on her left nipple was initially diagnosed with undifferentiated sarcoma, but further examination after surgery revealed ...