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Clip** the Positive Lymph Node in Patients with Clinically Node Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Impact on Axillary Surgery in the ISPY-2 Clinical Trial
BackgroundFor patients with clinically node-positive (cN+) breast cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), retrieving previously clipped,...
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Completion Lymph Node Dissection Is Unnecessary After Positive Sentinel Lymph Node in Melanoma — a Case Series Analysis
In recent times, significant trials showed that sentinel lymph node biopsy alone was therapeutic in melanoma and no further surgery was necessary...
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Nonsentinel Axillary Lymph Node Status in Clinically Node-Negative Early Breast Cancer After Primary Systemic Therapy and Positive Sentinel Lymph Node: A Predictive Model Proposal
BackgroundIn clinically node-negative (cN0) early stage breast cancer (EBC) undergoing primary systemic treatment (PST), post-treatment positive...
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Prognostication in Lymph Node-Positive Prostate Cancer with No PSA Persistence After Radical Prostatectomy
BackgroundThis study aimed to create a prognostic model to predict disease recurrence among patients with lymph node involvement but no...
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Omission of Completion Lymph Node Dissection in Sentinel Node Biopsy Positive Head and Neck Cutaneous Melanoma Patients
BackgroundRecent studies evaluating patients with a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB+) show no melanoma-specific survival difference between...
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Utility of Lymph Node Ratio in Predicting Biochemical Incomplete Clinical Response in Patients with Papillary Ca thyroid with Positive Neck Node
Backgroundwith the requirement of aggressive follow-up in patients with biochemically incomplete response in patients of papillary ca. thyroid with...
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Size of lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: implication for imaging and oncologic follow-up of 2705 lymph-node positive patients
BackgroundDespite modern imaging modalities, lymph-node staging before radical prostatectomy (RP) remains challenging in patients with prostate...
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Omission of axillary lymph node dissection for breast cancer patients with three or more positive sentinel lymph nodes
PurposeThe ACOSOG Z0011 (Z11) trial assessed the benefit of axillary dissection (ALND) for breast cancer patients with sentinel lymph node (SLN)...
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Exploring the most appropriate lymph node staging system for node-positive breast cancer patients and constructing corresponding survival nomograms
BackgroundThe lymph node (LN) status is a crucial prognostic factor for breast cancer (BC) patients. Our study aimed to compare the predictive...
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Survival analysis in pT1-3 and paracolic lymph-node invasion colorectal cancer: the prognostic role of positive paracolic lymph-node ratio for adjuvant chemotherapy
PurposeSeveral studies have observed that some stage III colorectal cancer (CRC) patients cannot benefit from standard adjuvant chemotherapy....
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N1 lymph node detection in lymph node harvesting in non-small cell lung cancer: Formaldehyde exposure is a drawback?
ObjectiveThis study aimed to evaluate the effect of lymph node dissection method on staging results, diagnosis of tumor metastasis in single or...
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Early experience of robotic axillary lymph node dissection in patients with node-positive breast cancer
BackgroundRobotic surgical systems enable surgeons to perform precise movement in the surgical field using high-resolution 3D vision and flexible...
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Lymph Node Positivity of Axillary Reverse Map** Lymph Nodes at the Time of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection: Two-Site Prospective Trial
BackgroundAxillary reverse map** (ARM) was introduced in 2007 to identify and selectively preserve upper-extremity lymphatics during axillary lymph...
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Can contralateral lymph-node metastases be ruled out in prostate cancer patients with only unilaterally positive prostate biopsy?
PurposeOur study evaluated the diagnostic benefits of bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy in prostate cancer patients with unilaterally positive...
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Prognostic Heterogeneity Between Oral Tongue and Gingivobuccal Tumours Based on Lymph Node Ratio and Number of Positive Nodes: A Survival Analysis
IntroductionLymph node ratio (LNR) and number of pathological positive nodes (pN) have shown better prognostic prediction compared to laterality,...
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Association between postoperative pathological results and non-sentinel nodal metastasis in breast cancer patients with sentinel lymph node-positive breast cancer
ObjectiveFor patients with 1–2 positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) identified by biopsy, the necessity of axillary lymph node dissection (ALND)...
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Oncological Safety of Skip** Axillary Lymph Node Dissection in Patients with Clinical N0, Sentinel Node-Positive Breast Cancer Undergoing Total Mastectomy
ObjectiveThis study aimed to determine whether sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) alone could afford oncological outcomes comparable with axillary...
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Clip** a Positive Lymph Node Improves Accuracy of Nodal Staging After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients, but Does It Drive Management Changes?
BackgroundSentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy for cN+ breast cancer patients after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is controversial because the...
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Can axillary lymphadenectomy be avoided in breast cancer with positive sentinel lymph node biopsy? Predictors of non-sentinel lymph node metastasis
PurposeCompletion axillary lymph node dissection (cALND) can currently be avoided in those patients with a low tumor load (LTL) and/or a low-risk...
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Efficacy and safety comparison between axillary lymph node dissection with no axillary surgery in patients with sentinel node-positive breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BackgroundThis systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to study the evidence on the efficacy and safety of omitting axillary lymph node dissection...
