Omitting axillary lymph node dissection does not increase the risk for recurrence or compromise 5-year overall survival outcomes in patients with early-stage, node-negative breast cancer with sentinel ...

The concept of skipping axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) in some patients with breast cancer was supported by a European noninferiority trial. Among patients with early-stage, node-negative ...

Women with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative breast cancer who have one positive sentinel node and no high-risk features can likely be spared ...

Strength training may be getting underdosed among women who undergo mastectomy or axillary lymph node dissection for breast ...

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 ...

Future breast cancer treatment options may not only increase patients’ survival but also reduce or eliminate their need for surgery altogether, says breast cancer surgeon Sara Javid, MD, Fred ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hispanic, Black and Asian women experience more subjective arm swelling compared with white women after axillary ...

DALLAS – Oct. 1, 2013 – A conservative approach to removing lymph nodes is associated with less harm for breast cancer patients and often yields the same results as more radical procedures, ...

Investigators sought to determine if an extensive weight training regimen could help patients recover from breast cancer surgery faster.

A three-month supervised resistance training regimen yields meaningful functional gains in patients with breast cancer, ...

"Traditional guidelines question how soon women treated for breast cancer can exercise and how much weight they can safely ...