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Sentinel node biopsy to avoid axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer

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The role of sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer has increased over the last few years. Sentinel nodes can predict the status of all axillary lymph nodes precisely and select patients with negative nodes for whom axillary dissection is unnecessary. Many problems remain, such as the ideal injection technique, ideal agents, and ideal histological detection of sentinel node metastases, and must be addressed before sentinel node biopsy becomes the standard of care for patients with breast cancer.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan

    Kazuyoshi Motomura, Yoshifumi Komoike, Hideo Inaji & Hiroki Koyama

  2. Department of Cytology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan

    Sachiko Nagumo

  3. Department of Pathology, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan

    Tsutomu Kasugai

  4. Department ofNuclear Medicine, Osaka Medical Center for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Japan

    Yoshihisa Hasegawa

  5. Department of Surgical Oncology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan

    Shinzaburo Noguchi

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Motomura, K., Komoike, Y., Nagumo, S. et al. Sentinel node biopsy to avoid axillary lymph node dissection in breast cancer. Breast Cancer 9, 337–343 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02967614

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