For more than 100 years, standard treatment for breast cancer has included a painful surgery: the removal of lymph nodes under the armpit. But a new study finds that for 20 percent of invasive breast ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...

Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available. This study is comparing keyhole surgery with open surgery to remove lymph nodes in the groin ...