Axillary lymphadenopathy occurs when your underarm (axilla) lymph nodes grow larger in size. This condition it's usually attributed to a benign cause. Learn about symptoms, causes, treatment, and ...

An ALND removes potentially cancerous tumors in the lymph nodes in your underarm area. This may be done in conjunction with other surgeries for breast cancer. Learn more.

The average person has about 20–40 axillary lymph nodes. In traditional breast cancer surgery methods, patients whose breast cancer had spread to the axillary lymph nodes often had all these axillary ...

But to determine candidacy for adjuvant abemaciclib in women with HR-positive, HER2–negative breast cancer, there is a "gray zone" for performing axillary lymph node dissection in those with one ...

PET/CT identified extra-axillary lymph nodes in 39% of the patients. Primary systemic therapy achieved pCR in 47% of patients (103 of 218) who were treated with RT alone.

Intraoperative assessment of sentinel lymph nodes during mastectomy significantly increased the likelihood of aggressive axillary treatment vs. postsurgical assessment of lymph node biopsies among ...

Patients with suspicious axillary lymph nodes in their breasts should first undergo ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration to avoid unnecessary surgery, according to researchers from the ...

In the SLNB arm, 13.7% had positive axillary nodes, 5.1% had micrometastases, and 8.6% had macrometastases. Only four patients had four or more positive nodes.

For instance, the monarchE study demonstrated the efficacy of abemaciclib in patients having ≥4 positive lymph nodes or 1-3 positive lymph nodes with additional high-risk features (eg, grade 3 disease ...

In the surgery group, 579 of 3854 patients (15.0%) with sentinel lymph nodes detected and a known nodal status had cancer-positive sentinel nodes; 133 patients (3.5%) had micrometastases, 438 (11. ...

In the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) 10981-22023 Comparison of Complete Axillary Lymph Node Dissection with Axillary Radiation Therapy in Treating Women with ...