Most women with early-stage breast cancer avoid extensive lymph node removal

26 March 2015

A new study of women with early-stage breast cancer finds that surgeons no longer universally remove most of the lymph nodes in the underarm area when a biopsy of the nearby lymph nodes shows cancer — a major change in breast cancer management.
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