Characteristics of breast cancer tumors in Lebanon: Where do we stand? No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2005 ASCO Annual Meeting. This ...

Is more aggressive lymph node assessment associated with improved survival in stage II-III colorectal cancer? Evidence from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registry ...

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 ...

Methylene blue dye is an accurate and cost-effective single agent for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer. Sentinel node identification rate is a more reasonable target for assessment of ...

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 ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrates that human papillomavirus positivity in cervical cancer is associated with better overall, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival. HPV Types in ...

Dr. Eva Singletary answers the question: 'What Effect Does Blue Dye Have?' — -- Question: What type of reactions are possible from the blue dye used in sentinel lymph node biopsy? Answer: The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy can be considered for node-negative, HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast ...

Breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes may be treated more aggressively than localized cancer, because it has a greater potential to travel to other parts of the body. You have thousands of ...