Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: a work in progress
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Abhishek Chatterjee1, Nicholas Serniak, Brian J Czerniecki
1From the Department of Surgery and the Rena Rowan Breast Center, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Cancer Journal (Sudbury, Mass.)
|January 23, 2015
Abstract:
The sentinel lymph node biopsy is a safe, accurate operation for the initial staging of breast cancer. Over the last decade, there has been increasing literature supporting its use, and it is now considered a standard of care for the initial evaluation of metastatic spread to the axillary lymph node chain.
