Background Endoscopic resectional techniques for colon cancer are undermined by their
inability to determine lymph node status. This limits their application to only those lesions at …

Objectives. To determine the effects of program policy changes, we examined service
delivery benchmarks for breast cancer screening in the National Breast and Cervical Cancer …

Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become the preferred method for
axillary nodal staging. The authors examined SLNB utilization in urban versus rural settings …

Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), an acceptable alternative to axillary lymph
node dissection for staging patients with breast cancer, was introduced to clinical practice in …

BACKGROUND: Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) followed by radiotherapy is as effective
as mastectomy for treatment of early invasive breast cancer. But earlier studies report low …

Background: There are still ongoing controversies about several aspects of lymphatic
mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer, including injection site of …

Hypothesis It has recently been proposed that only 3 sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) are
required for an adequate SLN biopsy. Others have advocated removing all nodes that are …

Choline kinase (ChoK) overexpression and increased activity have been shown in
malignant cells and tumours of the lung, colon, breast, prostate, and ovaries. 1, 2 In …

The purpose of this study was to investigate potential risk factors for failed sentinel lymph
node identification in breast cancer surgery. Patient characteristics, tumour characteristics …

Background Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has largely replaced axillary dissection
(ALND) for axillary staging in early breast cancer. However, intense pathologic evaluation is …