New Tool to Predict Breast Cancer\'s Spread

Memorial Sloan Kettering has a nomogram that helps patients and their physicians take some of the guesswork out of treatment decisions. The breast cancer nomogram is a prediction tool. It predicts the likelihood that cancer will spread beyond the sentinel lymph mode to additional lymph nodes under the arm. The study that demonstrates the adccuracy of the nomogram was published in the December 2003 issue of the Annals of Surgical Oncology. You can go to the MSKCC Web stite at www.mskcc.org/nomograms/breastcancer and read up on this. It's very interesting.