Some Breast Cancer Patients Do Not Benefit From ALN Dissection
 

A recent observational study of 97,000 women with breast cancer and nodal metastases indicates that there is no appreciable difference in axillary recurrence and survival between those who undergo sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy alone versus SLN biopsy with the more invasive completion axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).

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