Sentinel lymph nodes are the first lymph node or nodes that a cancer may spread to. A sentinel lymph node biopsy is a test to find these lymph nodes. Your doctor then checks to see they have cancer ...

a physical examination shows your lymph nodes feel abnormally large or hard a scan shows that your lymph nodes appear abnormal a sentinel lymph node biopsy finds melanoma cells in your lymph nodes A ...

At MSK, breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction often are done during the same procedure. During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of ...

Relationship in gene amplification between ERBB2 and other oncogenes: Implications for the therapeutic efficacy of trastuzumab (Tmab)-based chemotherapy (CTx) in HER2 positive gastric cancer. This is ...

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...

If required, the GP may then refer you to a hospital for further tests. You may need a lymph node biopsy, which involves removing some or all of an affected lymph node, which is then studied in a ...

replace axillary dissection with sentinel [lymph] node biopsy [SLNB], give less radiotherapy in the form of partial breast irradiation or give it over a shorter period of time with ...