SAN ANTONIO — Women with early breast cancer who have less extensive axillary surgery see no effect on their 10-year rates of locoregional recurrence and mortality than do those who have more ...

Axillary surgery efficacy for patients with breast cancer receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy on NSABP B40 and B41. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract ...

More women could potentially be spared an axillary lymph node dissection—the surgical removal of 10-20 lymph nodes—a procedure that causes disabling arm swelling in up to 25% of women, according to a ...

"The days are numbered for axillary surgery" in breast cancer patients and, in the coming years, use of the commonplace procedure will be "very limited," write a pair of Italian surgeons in a ...

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology determined that the main risk factor for breast cancer-related lymphedema in patients with positive axillary lymph nodes is the type of axillary ...

The Halsted radical mastectomy included an en bloc resection of axillary contents. Now, more than a century later, there is little controversy about the use of breast-conserving surgical treatments in ...

Patients with early-stage breast cancer who had cancer detected in a sentinel lymph node biopsy had comparable 10-year recurrence and survival rates following either axillary radiotherapy or axillary ...

More women could potentially be spared an axillary lymph node dissection -- the surgical removal of 10-20 lymph nodes -- a procedure that causes disabling arm swelling in up to 25% of women, according ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with early invasive breast cancer who did not receive axillary surgery had noninferior outcomes as ...