The Breast
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 65-66, February 2010

Sentinel node biopsy in breast cancer: Time has come to systematically perform it before planned axillary clearance

Farhat Hached university teaching hospital, O & G Department, Boulevard M Karoui, Sousse 4002, Tunisia

Received 8 September 2009; accepted 14 October 2009. published online 09 November 2009.

Abstract 

Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a simple and relatively safe technique that emerged as a standard in the management of early breast cancer. Indications are becoming larger and because this particular node provides significant epidemiological, clinical, pathological, educational and prognostic information efforts must be done to identify it even when a a complete axillary clearance is planned.

Keywords: Breast cancer, Sentinel node, Surgery

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PII: S0960-9776(09)00135-0

doi:10.1016/j.breast.2009.10.006

The Breast
Volume 19, Issue 1 , Pages 65-66, February 2010

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