Breast MRI Shows It's Not The Size Of The Lymph Node That Signals Spread Of Cancer
 

Physicians treating breast cancer first look to lymph nodes in a patient's armpit to see whether cancer is spreading elsewhere in the body - but they may not be evaluating the nodes in the most effective way. Initial research suggested that enlargement and abnormalities of axillary sentinel lymph nodes - located in the armpit area near the breast - were predictive of cancer.

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