axillary dissection造句

• Cody's group is offering women with small tumors the option of forgoing axillary dissection entirely in favor of the simpler procedure.
• Such women, they say, may consequently " be spared the complete axillary dissection when the sentinel node is disease free ."
• Sentinel node biopsy is a simpler procedure than axillary dissection; it takes less than an hour and is often done on an outpatient basis.
• A sentinel node biopsy spares these women the frequent side effects of axillary dissection : swelling, numbness and tingling in the arm and pain and stiffness in the arm and shoulder.
• "More and more women are found with smaller and smaller tumors, making them candidates for breast preservation instead of mastectomy, " which involves removal of the breast and extensive axillary dissection, she said.
• If one or two sentinel nodes have cancer which is not extensive, then no axillary dissection should be performed but the person with cancer should have breast-conserving surgery and chemotherapy appropriate for their stage of cancer.
• If the node contains tumor cells, the surgical incision is enlarged and the remaining 20-odd nodes in the area are removed in a standard axillary dissection procedure that rids the body of as much tumor tissue as possible.
• The team also said that because the technique's " predictive value in our patients with small _ 1.5 cm _ carcinomas was 100 percent, we believe the procedure could be applied immediately in such cases as a substitute for axillary dissection.
• The new technique, sentinel node biopsy, is replacing a routine part of breast cancer surgery called axillary dissection, in which surgeons remove a cluster of lymph nodes in the armpit near the affected breast and examine each of them under a microscope.
• The team also said that because the technique's " predictive value in our patients with small _ 1 . 5 cm _ carcinomas was 100 percent, we believe the procedure could be applied immediately in such cases as a substitute for axillary dissection.