Historically, a positive SLNB necessitated completion ALND to ensure removal of additional cancer that lymph nodes might harbor, said de Boniface. Axillary surgery may lead to multiple arm-related ...

Five-year OS was 94.4% with ALND omission vs 93.4% with completion ALND (HR 0.89), confirming non-inferiority; breast cancer–specific survival was similarly high in both arms. Inclusion of mastectomy ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, and surgical resection with lymphadenectomy is the only potentially curative option. Lymphadenectomy—the systematic ...

First-Line, Fixed-Duration Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Followed by Nivolumab in Clinically Diverse Patient Populations With Unresectable Stage III or IV Melanoma: CheckMate 401 Patients who underwent ...

Thousands of women could now be spared one of the most debilitating side-effects of breast cancer treatment - lifelong ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with breast cancer had similar survival whether they underwent completion axillary lymph node ...

For years, surgery for patients with stage III melanoma -- melanoma that has spread to the lymph nodes -- involved removing those lymph nodes along with the primary tumor. Known as completion lymph ...

Although much rarer than either breast or prostate cancers, testicular cancer is the most common solid tumor in males between the ages of 15 and 35, with approximately 10,000 young men diagnosed ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is one of the standard-of-care therapies for breast cancer (BC) with axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases. However, the response to this therapy varies depending on the ...

Women with hormone receptor (HR)–positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–negative breast cancer who have one positive sentinel node and no high-risk features can likely be spared ...