Workgroup I - Treatment of the Axilla with Surgery and Radiation - Preoperative and postoperative risk assessment

Authors
Leitch, AM Meek, AG Smith, RA Boris, M Bourgeois, P Higgins, S Pressman, PI Stevens, J Stevens, RE
Citation
Am. Leitch et al., Workgroup I - Treatment of the Axilla with Surgery and Radiation - Preoperative and postoperative risk assessment, CANCER, 83(12), 1998, pp. 2877
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Oncology,"Onconogenesis & Cancer Research
Journal title
CANCER
ISSN journal
0008543X → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
12
Year of publication
1998
Supplement
2
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-543X(199812)83:12<2877:WI-TOT>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
Although axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is currently the standard of care for the management of patients with invasive breast carcinoma, it can be avoided in certain cases in which the lesions are low risk. For those p atients for whom ALND is indicated, new surgical approaches as well as grea ter care and attention to detail with current approaches to surgery and rad iation to the axilla may reduce the risk of posttreatment lymphedema.