Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer diagnosed in women worldwide. Accurate lymph
node staging is essential for both prognosis (of early-stage disease) and treatment (for …

BACKGROUND: As neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is increasingly used to downstage
patients with breast cancer, the timing of the sentinel node (SN) biopsy has become an …

Importance Sentinel lymph node (SLN) surgery provides reliable nodal staging information
with less morbidity than axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) for patients with clinically …

Purpose The accurate harvesting of a sentinel node in breast cancer includes a sequence of
procedures with components from different medical specialities, including nuclear medicine …

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

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Advanced Breast Cancer:
Results of Ganglion Sentinelle et Chimioth Page 1 Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy After …

Objective: To evaluate factors affecting sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification after
neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in patients with initial node-positive breast cancer …

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Breast cancer is the leading cause of mortality in women
worldwide. Lymphatic mapping with sentinel node biopsy has the potential to reduce the …

The past few decades have seen an increase in both the role and the complexity of
neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer. Neoadjuvant therapy was initially described as …

Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer was originally used in locally
advanced inoperable disease in order to achieve surgical resection. It was then extended to …