… Sentinel lymph node biopsy is an accurate method for nodal staging in patients with breast
cancer, and when combined with detailed histologic examination of the SLN, a subgroup of …

… Women with breast cancer are more frequently being treated with preoperative neoadjuvant
chemotherapy. The reliability of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) following chemotherapy …

… for other nodes to be affected. Sentinel lymph node biopsy has become the standard of
care for primary treatment of early breast cancer and has replaced ALND to stage clinically …

… sentinel lymph node concept to breast cancer. Whereas biopsy of the sentinel lymph node is
… still open as to whether the same should also apply to patients with early breast cancer (24). …

… the strict criteria from the Tumor Lymph Node Metastasis (TNM) … Cancer and International
Union Against Cancer/TNM guidelines for sentinel lymph node classification in breast cancer. …

… status is a vital component of our current staging system for breast carcinoma. The ability of
… of breast cancer. SLND allows for focused histopathologic examination of the lymph node …

… sentinel-node biopsy, which we expect will become the standard procedure for staging early
breast cancer … validation of the sentinel lymph node hypothesis for breast carcinoma. Ann …

… more locoregional recurrences in the sentinel node arm. Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy
… status of the axilla in breast cancer, allowing to avoid axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) …

… a completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for breast cancer patients with tumor-involved
sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs), although fewer than half will have non-sentinel node (…

… of sentinel lymph node mapping in patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast
carcinoma prior to lumpectomy or mastectomy and sentinel lymph node mapping followed …