Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: December 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781841840345
Subjects: Oncology; Surgical oncology; Pathology; Histopathology; Lymphatic System Disorders; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Surgery - General; Medical / Internal Medicine; Diseases
First sentence: The treatment of breast cancer has evolved from the radical, disfiguring mastectomy described by Halsted in the late nineteenth century to the less invasive, less debilitating lumpectomy and axillary lymph-node dissection (ALND) as new discoveries have been made into the mechanism of the spread of breast cancer.