Sentences with phrase «axillary node»

Ultrasound was found to be inferior for detecting axillary node metastasis in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma compared with invasive ductal carcinoma.

The study involved women with axillary node - positive (cancer in the lymph glands under the arm) or high - risk node - negative breast cancer (no cancer in under arm nodes, but cancer with bad prognostic features).

Omission of radiotherapy is a reasonable option for women age 65 or older who receive hormone therapy after breast - conserving surgery for hormone receptor - positive, axillary node - negative breast cancer, according to results of the PRIME 2 trial presented at the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 10 - 14.

In an article published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2017.74.6586), Laenkholm et al report on a study of 2,558 postmenopausal women identified as having HR positive / HER2 - negative, early - stage breast cancer, 1,395 of whom had one to three positive axillary nodes.

Not exact matches

African American women with early stage, invasive breast cancer were 12 percent less likely than Caucasian women with the same diagnosis to receive a minimally invasive technique, axillary sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, even as the procedure had become the standard of surgical practice, according to research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

All patients had negative axillary lymph nodes on pathology and documented axillary surgical procedure.

Tissues tested included peripheral nerves (PN), axillary (ax) and mesenteric (mes) lymph nodes (LN), lung, meninges / dura mater (dura), spleen, cerebrum, skeletal muscle (sk musc), heart, spinal cord (SC), and joint synovium (jt syno).

Those fixed for histology, placed in tissue culture, and snap - frozen in OCT for cryosectioning included the heart, pericardium, bladder, knee and elbow joint tissues, skeletal muscle (bicep and quadriceps), dura mater, brain (cerebrum, cerebellum and brainstem), back skin, axillary and mesenteric lymph nodes, spleen, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia, and peripheral nerves (sural, tibial, ulnar and median).

Assessing accuracy of pre-operative imaging in identifying axillary metastasis and assessing accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with IBC

Within a few months of his diagnosis of primary cutaneous T - cell lymphoma, he developed systemic involvement of T - cell lymphoma in an axillary lymph node, bone marrow and lung.

A MRM is a variation of the total mastectomy, which removes the entire breast including the lymph nodes under the arm (called an axillary lymph node dissection) while sparing the pectoralis major muscle.

Submandibular, prescapular, axillary, inguinal, and popliteal lymph nodes should all be evaluated.