Sentences with phrase «nodes under the arm»

Swollen lymph nodes under the arm should also be examined.

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.

Removal of the entire breast, including the nipple, the areola, the overlying skin, the lymph nodes under the arm, and the chest muscles.

nipple piercing — difficulty breastfeeding with an infected nipple (which in women can quickly travel through the milk ducts and into the lymph nodes under the arm) or the growth of a cyst inside the nipple.

Not exact matches

During surgery, your doctor may remove lymph nodes from under your arm on the side of your breast.

To address this, Lagasse has injected hepatocytes into lymph nodes in peripheral parts of a mouse's body — under the knee or arm — because that requires less invasive surgery.

It will not be easy, but Porter is hopeful that one day doctors specializing in other cancers will experience what he did when examining one of his leukemia patients not long after that phone call on the quad: He felt under the man's arm for his lymph nodes, which had been enlarged by the cancer for years.

Radiotherapy to the chest wall and regional lymph nodes (under the arm, above the collar bone and under the breast bone), known as regional nodal irradiation, is used after mastectomy in women with node - positive breast cancer who are treated with adjuvant systemic therapy.

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).

«Additional radiation to the surrounding lymph nodes reduced the risk of subsequent recurrence of breast cancer both locally, such as under the arm, and at sites distant from the breast, such as the bone, liver and lung.

Wearing restraining, tight fitting under garments such as wired bras can cause the inability for fluid to be drained from the breast, arms and chest into surrounding lymph nodes.

This surgery involves removal of the entire affected breast and most or all of the lymph nodes under the adjacent arm.