Tom Nolan reviews this week’s research Between 2000 and 2022 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) appraised 332 pharmaceuticals (with 83% getting positive recommendations). Had ...

Key updates from SABCS 2024 in early breast cancer include the COMET study on DCIS recurrence, INSEMA trial on SLNB omission, and OlympiA updates on adjuvant olaparib, shared by Dr Harold Burstein.

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...

Are lymph nodes removed during a mastectomy? During a mastectomy, most people have a sentinel lymph node biopsy. This is a procedure that removes 1 or more lymph nodes from the underarm area. These ...

This can be easier to understand. In the TNM staging system, stage 1 can be: If you have stage 1B melanoma, your doctor may offer you a test called a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). They may also ...

This is called a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB). Your doctor removes the first lymph node or nodes that the melanoma could have spread to. You have a sentinel lymph node biopsy at the same time as ...

This led to the hypothesis that with the use of the SN biopsy, the correct subgroup of node-positive patients with intermediate-thickness melanoma could be targeted for early lymph node dissection and ...

Panelists discuss the INSEMA trial, comparing no axillary surgery versus axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with early invasive breast cancer, exploring the implications for ...