Thursday, February 10, 2011
Big Changes in Breast Cancer Care
I always say that medicine is a dynamic changing field and today's JAMA study on the standard practice of removing lymph nodes in women with cancer is flipping medicine on it's head. For over 100 years, the standard practice has been to remove cancerous lymph nodes in early stage breast cancer. It has been common practice to sample these nodes and remove them if there was any evidence of cancer