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Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer

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Axillary lymphnode dissection (ALND) for breast cancer patients provides local control and information for the determination of the type of adjuvant therapy. The benefit of axillary surgery itself for survival is considered to be limited to patients with positive nodes. Sentinel node biopsy is a recently developed, minimally invasive technique for precisely predicting axillary nodal status. As this technique has less morbidity and greater accuracy than ALND, it replaces ALND for patients with node negative breast cancer. In this report, we outline the current status of sentinel node biopsy for breast cancer patients and introduce our preliminary results.

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Abbreviations

SNB:

Sentinel node biopsy

ALND:

Axillary lymph-node dissection

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  1. Departments of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka

    Kazuyoshi Motomura, Hideo Inaji, Yoshifumi Komoike & Hiroki Koyama

  2. Departments of Pathology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka

    Tsutomu Kasugai

  3. Departments of Cytology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka

    Sachiko Nagumo

  4. Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka

    Shinzaburo Noguchi

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Motomura, K., Inaji, H., Komoike, Y. et al. Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer. Breast Cancer 6, 289–291 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02966441

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