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

A deep learning model that reads multiregional contrast-enhanced breast MRI can predict whether chemotherapy has completely ...

Response-guided axillary treatment using an approach known as the MARI protocol can safely spare many women with node-positive breast cancer from axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) after ...

Patients with breast cancer may be able to avoid lymphedema, which can occur after surgery to remove lymph nodes in the armpit (the axilla), by having radiotherapy instead. It is possible to leave ...

The management of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer is continually evolving. Recent data now support omitting axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in most patients with metastases in up to two ...

Targeted axillary dissection with sentinel lymph node biopsy successfully retrieved all preoperatively identified positive nodes in node-positive breast cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant ...

After breast cancer surgery, when you raise your arm, a thin cord may sometimes appear from your armpit down the inside of your arm.When touched, it feels like a string stretched under the skin. It ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is one of the standard-of-care therapies for breast cancer (BC) with axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases. However, the response to this therapy varies depending on the ...

In clinically node-positive breast cancer, clipping of lymph nodes may induce higher rates of sentinel lymph node surgery after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The utilization of clipping and localizing a ...

Patients with breast cancer may be able to avoid lymphedema, which can occur after surgery to remove lymph nodes in the armpit (the axilla), by having radiotherapy instead. New findings, presented at ...

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 ...

When breast cancer spreads to patients' axillary (armpit) lymph nodes, surgeons will sometimes remove some or all of those nodes through axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). That procedure saves ...