Sentinel node mapping in gastric cancer surgery is an intraoperative strategy designed to identify the first-echelon lymph nodes that directly drain a gastric tumour. By using tracer substances and ...

Complicated gastric lymphatic drainage potentially undermines the utility of sentinel node (SN) biopsy in patients with gastric cancer. Encouraged by several favorable single-institution reports, we ...

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and 10 other professional societies have issued new appropriate use criteria (AUC) for lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel node mapping and ...

A Key Player in Cancer Diagnosis When someone receives a cancer diagnosis, one of the very first questions on every doctor’s mind is: has it stayed put, or has it begun to make its way through the ...

Natural History of Paclitaxel-Associated Acute Pain Syndrome: Prospective Cohort Study NCCTG N08C1 Published literature in all languages between 1990 and 2009 was critically appraised. Primary ...

Limited data are available on survival outcomes after sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone as compared with lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer. In this multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial, we ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sentinel lymph node biopsy was effective as a prognostic and staging tool in stage IIB/C melanoma, according to ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrates that human papillomavirus positivity in cervical cancer is associated with better overall, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival. HPV Types in ...

Omitting sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with early-stage breast cancer undergoing breast-conserving surgery may not increase the risk for recurrence over 5 years, according to findings ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy can be considered for node-negative, HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast ...

For patients with early-stage cervical cancer, sentinel lymph node biopsy alone is noninferior to lymphadenectomy with respect to disease-free survival, according to a study published online Oct. 15 ...