Around one in four women with breast cancer undergo an armpit, or axillary, lymph node removal surgery. The surgery is performed if tests show that the cancer has spread from the breast tissue to ...

You’ll need this surgery if the cancer is locally advanced and involves skin, muscle, or many lymph nodes. Skin-sparing mastectomy In this mastectomy, we remove all of the tissue inside of the breast.

A growth factor-stimulating gene therapy did not improve outcomes with vascularized lymph node transfer (VLNT) for breast ...

Around one in four women with breast cancer undergo an armpit, or axillary, lymph node removal surgery. The surgery is performed if tests show that the cancer has spread from the breast tissue to the ...