... has been found, it's removed (an excisional biopsy) and looked ... If cancer cells are found in the sentinel node, the rest of the lymph nodes in this ...
http://www.cancer.org/treatment/understandingyourdiagnosis/examsandtestdescriptions/testingbiopsyandcytologyspecimensforcancer/testing-biopsy-and-cytology-specimens-for-cancer-biopsy-types
... Surgery is also used to check the lymph nodes under the arm for cancer spread. Options for this include a sentinel lymph node biopsy and an ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-treating-surgery
... such as being at least a certain thickness), a sentinel lymph node biopsy is often done to determine if it has spread to nearby lymph nodes, which in ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/skincancer-melanoma/detailedguide/melanoma-skin-cancer-diagnosed
... spread to 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes and/or tiny amounts of cancer are found in internal mammary lymph nodes on sentinel lymph node biopsy (N1 ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/detailedguide/breast-cancer-staging
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-staging
... If the lymph nodes are not enlarged, a sentinel lymph node biopsy may be done, particularly if the melanoma is thicker than 1 mm. ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/skincancer-melanoma/detailedguide/melanoma-skin-cancer-treating-surgery
... such as being at least a certain thickness), a sentinel lymph node biopsy is often done to find out if the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes. ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/skincancer-melanoma/overviewguide/melanoma-skin-cancer-overview-diagnosed
... may be done if one or more of the underarm lymph nodes are known to contain cancer, based on a previous sentinel lymph node biopsy (see below ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancerinmen/detailedguide/breast-cancer-in-men-treating-surgery
... Instead of removing all of the groin lymph nodes to look for cancer, some doctors prefer to do a sentinel lymph node biopsy, which is discussed later ...
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/penilecancer/detailedguide/penile-cancer-treating-surgery
... a large number of nodes), but they are sometimes used in sentinel lymph node biopsies (see Sentinel lymph node mapping and biopsy in the ...
http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/cid/documents/webcontent/003185-pdf.pdf
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