Radioactive tracing agent can identify tumor-draining sentinel nodes in breast cancer

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Researchers say a new kind of tracing agent is more accurate than current methods in helping identify tumor-draining sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer and melanoma patients. That's the finding in a new study that appears in the online version of the Annals of Surgical Oncology.

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