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Does the presence of multiple positive intramammary lymph nodes in the setting of negative sentinel lymph nodes cause you to treat regional lymphatics?

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Radiation Oncology · Varian Medical Systems/Allegheny health network

In the non-sentinel node era, all these patients had axillary dissection and had higher likelihood of the axilla being positive. In the era of sentinel node biopsy, we usually we don't change if sentinel node was mapped and sampled successfully. The thought process is for these patients is that the ...

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