Researchers compared overall survival and disease-free survival rates for ALND versus SLND alone in women undergoing breast-conservation therapy (BCT) or total mastectomy (TM). Of the 861 patients ...

Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND): Your doctor takes 10 to 40 lymph nodes from under your arm. These are checked under a microscope to see if there are signs of cancer. A mastectomy with lymph ...

The NSABP-B04 trial randomly assigned patients to radical mastectomy, total mastectomy, radiation without ALND, or total mastectomy plus ALND only if nodes became positive. The trial predated systemic ...

But because a total mastectomy precludes future SLNB ... 15.2 percent of women had full ALND and 47.8 percent had SLNB. Among the 17.7 percent of women who had axillary evaluation with BCS ...

Nineteen percent of patients who underwent mastectomy and ALND also reported arm swelling at 1 year, while 34% reported a decreased range of motion. And when radiation therapy was added to ...

For a while, the standard treatment for breast cancer was a radical mastectomy, with total removal of the breast, lymph nodes in the underarm, and some chest muscles under the breast. But surgical ...

The primary surgical procedure was classified as breast conservation surgery or mastectomy. Patients also were categorized according to their axillary lymph node examinations, as follows: no nodal ...

You have this at the same time as your mastectomy. This is called an axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) or axillary clearance. You have a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) at the same time as your ...

they concluded that "there is limited evidence to support lymphedema precautions for patients after mastectomy" with ALND or SLNB. They further noted that because of the lack of high-quality ...

But because a total mastectomy precludes future SLNB ... 15.2 percent of women had full ALND and 47.8 percent had SLNB. Among the 17.7 percent of women who had axillary evaluation with BCS ...