At MSK, breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction often are done during the same procedure. During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of ...

For patients with early-stage breast cancer and cutaneous melanoma, radioguided surgery and sentinel lymph node biopsy are now the accepted standard of care. Breast cancer is the most frequent type of ...

Relationship in gene amplification between ERBB2 and other oncogenes: Implications for the therapeutic efficacy of trastuzumab (Tmab)-based chemotherapy (CTx) in HER2 positive gastric cancer. This is ...

A specialist doctor (pathologist) looks at the biopsy under a microscope. If there are melanoma cells, they will work out the stage of the cancer. You may have some other tests and scans to help with ...

If required, the GP may then refer you to a hospital for further tests. You may need a lymph node biopsy, which involves removing some or all of an affected lymph node, which is then studied in a ...

A specialist doctor (pathologist) looks at the biopsy under a microscope. If there are melanoma cells, they will work out the stage of the cancer. You normally have some other tests and scans to help ...

replace axillary dissection with sentinel [lymph] node biopsy [SLNB], give less radiotherapy in the form of partial breast irradiation or give it over a shorter period of time with ...