Axillary node dissections worth doing, patients say
Patient preferences over the procedure should be considered: Australian researchers
Breast cancer patients with a positive sentinel node biopsy are willing to put up with the morbidity from axillary lymph node dissection in order to get better staging information, a small Australian study reveals.
The findings show that patient preferences for axillary dissection should be routinely considered after a positive sentinel node biopsy, even though the procedure has become controversial, the authors write in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology.
