Assessment of Axillary Lymph Node Status

Prediction Axillary Lymph Node Involvement Status on Breast Cancer Data

Introduction: one of the foremost usual methods for evaluating breast cancer is the removal of axillary lymph nodes (ALN) which include complications such as edema, limited hand movements, and lymph accumulation. Although studies have shown that the sentinel gland condition represents the axillary nodules context in the mammary gland, the efficacy, and safety of the guard node biopsy need to be...

Breast Axillary Lymph Node Metastasis

1Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, 3800 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA 2Clinical Breast Care Project, 620 Seventh Street, Windber, PA 15963, USA 3Division of Oncogenomics, Department of Pathology, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauß-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany 4Department of Pathology, University of Milan School o...

Imprint Cytology Predicts Axillary Node Status in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

The characteristics of the sentinel lymph node metastasis in predicting the axillary lymph node status in patients with breast carcinoma.

INTRODUCTION Lymph node metastases are the most significant prognostic factors in patients with breast carcinoma. A positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is followed by an axillary lymph node (ALN) dissection. In sentinel lymph node negative cases the risk of positive non-sentinel ALN is very low though not absent. The aim of this study was to determine predictive factors for non-sentinel l...

Axillary lymph node dissection on the run?

The standard approach of performing a completion axillary lymph node dissection (cALND) after a positive sentinel node for breast cancer patients is no longer generally accepted. This study applied the criterion of a 27% risk of having residual positive lymph nodes calculated by the MD Anderson nomogram to perform a cALND. This 27% cut-off is based on the number of positive non-sentinels in the...