European Medical Journal

Can Breast Cancer Surgery Go Greener?

A pilot study suggests that sustainable breast cancer surgery can be introduced in the operating room without undermining ...
CURE

Fewer Lymph Node Biopsies for Older Women With Early Breast Cancer

Fewer older women with early-stage, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer are undergoing routine sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), according to data that were presented at the ...

DecisionDx®-Melanoma’s i31-SLNB: Report from the Largest Prospective Multicenter Study to Date Confirms 2.6% Nodal Positivity in Patients Predicted to Have Less Than 5% Risk

Study results were recently shared at the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) 2026 Annual Meeting in Phoenix.NCCN Cutaneous Melanoma Guidelines ...
Healio

Sentinel lymph node biopsy may not be necessary for some older women with breast cancer

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Similar proportions of older women with node-negative and node-positive early breast cancer had Oncotype Dx ...
Cure Today

Delayed Surgery Possible With Surveillance in Patients With Sentinel Lymph Node Positive Melanoma

Active surveillance in sentinel lymph node positive melanoma could delay surgery but may result in the same risk of the cancer coming back. Ultrasound monitoring may be an alternative to surgical ...

Prospective, Multi-center Study Published in Future Oncology Demonstrates DecisionDx®-Melanoma’s i31-SLNB Result Outperforms Staging Criteria in Identifying Patients with ...

Among all patients studied, 2.6% nodal positivity and 97.8% three-year recurrence-free survival (RFS) was observed in those predicted to have less than 5% risk of a positive sentinel lymph node (SLN) ...
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: The role of day surgery and local anesthetic approach.

Panitumumab in combination with FEC 100 (5-fluorouracil, epidoxorubicin, cyclophosphamide) followed by docetaxel (T) in patients with operable, triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC): Preliminary ...
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Sentinel lymph node biopsy a low-risk option in determining melanoma treatment

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a low-risk procedure that can reduce the need for complete lymph node ...
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Effect of sentinel lymph-node biopsy alone on the morbidity of the surgical treatment of early cervical cancer: Results from the prospective randomized study Senticol2.

MITO (Multicentre Italian Trials in Ovarian cancer): CERV 2 trial—A randomized phase II study of carboplatin and paclitaxel +/- cetuximab, in advanced and/or recurrent cervical cancer. This is an ASCO ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Sentinel-Lymph-Node Biopsy Alone or with Lymphadenectomy in Cervical Cancer

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 ...
Medical Xpress

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in patients with clinically node-negative, hormonal receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative early-stage breast cancer did not compromise regional control or ...