DecisionDx-Melanoma continues to demonstrate strong performance in helping physicians make more informed, risk-aligned ...

A gene expression-based test identifies patients with primary cutaneous melanoma at a lower or higher risk for sentinel lymph ...

In two separate early-stage breast cancer studies, researchers examined the benefit of testing for traveling cancer cells that may have broken off the tumor site and additional surgery if those ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy that downstaged positive lymph nodes to negative led to a low rate of invasive breast cancer recurrence with either targeted axillary dissection (TAD) or ...

For patients with early-stage cervical cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy alone is noninferior to lymphadenectomy with respect to disease-free survival, according to a study published online Oct. 15 ...

The sentinel node is the first lymph node that filters lymphatic fluid from the tissue surrounding a tumor. As the first node in the lymph circulatory system “downstream” from the tumor, this is more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Up to 88% of sentinel lymph node biopsies (SNLB) return with a negative result. The DecisionDx-Melanoma test, ...

Dr. Ko Un “Clara” Park and Dr. Mylin Torres present the latest evidence-based changes to the SLNB in early-stage breast cancer guideline. They discuss the practice-changing trials that led to the ...

Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...

The presence or absence of tumor deposits in axillary lymph nodes in patients with breast carcinoma remains central to staging and prognosis as well as guidance of treatment decisions. Sentinel lymph ...

Older women with a very early, non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) gain no long-term benefit from undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...