For patients diagnosed with breast cancer, determining whether cancer cells have spread to the axillary lymph nodes of the armpit is important for guiding treatment decisions. It has been debated ...

Do all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy need to have all of their axillary nodes surgically removed? The answer seems to depend on whom you ask. For ...

Personalizing the Use of Active Surveillance As an Initial Approach for Men With Newly Diagnosed Prostate Cancer Recent findings from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Trial ...

Standardized uptake value (SUV) by positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) as a prognostic variable in metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Background: Recent reports have indicated a ...

Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...

Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward less ...

March 22, 2012 (San Diego, California) — Ultrasound treatment of axillary sweat glands might offer a nonsurgical option for patients with hyperhidrosis, according to 2 pilot studies presented here at ...

Left: Transverse image of left axilla on initial breast ultrasound, 19 days after first dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination to left upper extremity, demonstrates increased cortical thickness of 4 mm ...

Leesburg, VA, March 8, 2023—According to an accepted manuscript published in ARRS’ American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), axillary lymphadenopathy after a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose has a mean ...