Most women with early-stage breast cancer avoid extensive lymph node removal

Thursday, March 26, 2015 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

A new study of women with early-stage breast cancer finds that surgeons no longer universally remove most of the lymph nodes in the underarm area when a biopsy of the nearby lymph nodes shows cancer -- a major change in breast cancer management.

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