New Study Shows Axillary Surgery May Not Be Necessary for Certain Breast Cancer Patients
For decades, surgical axillary staging, including sentinel-lymph-node biopsy, has been standard practice for treating early-stage breast cancer. However, a groundbreaking study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) suggests that for patients with clinically node-negative (cN0) T1 or T2 invasive breast cancer, omitting axillary surgery is just as effective in terms of survival… Read More »
