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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is a procedure used in certain cases of breast cancer where the tumors have spread to the lymph nodes around your underarms (axilla).

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 ...

Patients with lymph node-positive breast cancer may still avoid extensive axillary surgery if they have clear nodes after systemic therapy, data from a prospective registry showed. Patients with ...

Gentilini OD, Botteri E, Sangalli C, et al. Sentinel lymph node biopsy vs no axillary surgery in patients with small breast cancer and negative results on ultrasonography of axillary lymph nodes ...

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 limit ...

There’s a potential side effect with the Covid-19 vaccine, and it’s the pits. Actually, it’s in the pits, the armpits. It’s swelling of the lymph nodes in the armpits, which may not always ...