Less invasive surgery detects residual breast cancer in lymph nodes after chemotherapy

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

A new study shows that a less invasive procedure known as sentinel lymph node surgery successfully identified whether cancer remained in lymph nodes in 91 percent of patients with node-positive breast cancer who received chemotherapy before their surgery.

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