- Sentinel Lymph Node Application in Breast Cancer
Involvement of axillary lymph nodes in breast cancer patients is important in terms of grading of the disease, life expectancy of the disease and treatment of the disease. It is important. For this reason, armpit dissections have been performed for about a hundred years.
Instead of very aggressive applications, nowadays it is enough to remove the marked glands. The location of the lymph node is determined with the special dyes or radioactive substances given and the surgery is completed by removing only the marked lymph node.
If the removed lymph node is benign, the surgery is terminated, therefore unnecessary armpit interventions are not performed. In this case, the patient will develop later; It gets rid of negativities such as excessive edema in the arm, deterioration in joint functions, chronic shoulder pain, and damage to the axillary nerve. It was first applied by Cabanas for lymphatic mapping purposes and later by Morton in 1992 in Melanoma patients.
The reliability of this application was statistically investigated and it was concluded that it is a reliable method.
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