Posted 6/4/2013 by hhill
This report from ASCO may be the beginnings of a game changer for some women with early breast cancer. A study from The Netherlands Cancer Institute found that some women with a positive sentinel lymph node who went on to radiation therapy without the intermmediate step of a full axillary dissection did just as well as women who had another surgery. If this results holds up in other studies, it could save many women more surgical time an the increased risk of lymphedema that comes from a full axillary dissection.
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