{"id":23,"date":"2013-09-15T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-09-15T08:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T08:05:46","slug":"sentinel-lymph-node-surgery-for-breast-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/sentinel-lymph-node-surgery-for-breast-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery for Breast Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First applied to breast cancer patients in 1991<\/li>\n<li>first widespread use was for cutaneous melanoma<\/li>\n<li>SLN decreases axillary morbidity. \u00a0Lymphedema is 1%-3%. \u00a0Decreased risk of parethesias.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The axillary recurrence rate was 0% with the negative sentinel lymph node group in one of the studies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Frozen section examinations of the lymph nodes in the OR has a false negative rate of 10-15%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Axillary Lymph Node status in Breast Cancer<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Axillary lymph node status is the strongest prognostic indicator for breast cancer patients.<\/li>\n<li>Axillary lymph node status most likely doesn&#8217;t need identification with DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) disease. \u00a0There is less than a 1% chance of a positive lymph node status in the axilla with DCIS.<\/li>\n<li>If there is a suspicion of an invasive component of breast cancer than consider sentinel lymph node procedure for diagnosing Axillary lymph node status.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection First applied to breast cancer patients in 1991 first widespread use was for cutaneous melanoma SLN decreases axillary morbidity. \u00a0Lymphedema is 1%-3%. \u00a0Decreased risk of parethesias. The axillary recurrence rate was 0% with the negative sentinel lymph node group in one of the studies. Frozen section examinations of the lymph nodes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/sentinel-lymph-node-surgery-for-breast-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sentinel Lymph Node Surgery for Breast Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,44],"tags":[47,46,49,48],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breast-cancer","category-lymphedema","category-sentinel-lymph-node","tag-false-negative","tag-frozen-section","tag-melanoma","tag-recurrence-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.breastguide.com\/breastcancerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}