Routine breast cancer biopsy might predict lymph node cancer spread
Sunday, April 18, 2010 - 13:14
in Health & Medicine
Predicting breast cancer spread from a sentinel lymph node removed during surgery is a hit or miss affair, say researchers: there are still many false negatives, which means the node, when analyzed under a microscope, appears clean of cancer cells, but metastasis can still occur in the patient. The sentinel node is the first lymph node in the axilla that cancer spreads to.