Onkológia 6/2009
Sentinel lymph node biopsy in early breast cancer
Nature of primary tumour and axillary staging is the main predictive and prognostic factor of survival in women with breast cancer. Significant advantage of sentinel lymph node biopsy is to set off the patient group with no need for radical axillar operation and to allow for avoiding its negative effects.
Keywords: breast carcinoma, axillary dissection, sentinel lymph node, lymphatic mapping, validation method, navigation gamma-probe
