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Stage II A breast cancer.
Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) with microinvasion in left breast. Tumor is <1 mm and 2 sentinel lymph nodes show micrometastatic disease (<2 mm). Tumor is estrogen positive and HER2/neu negative. Treatment Plan
Lumpectomy
Chemotheraphy (six cyles of TAC every three weeks) Radiation (six weeks daily) Hormone therapy (five years of tamoxifen) Milestones
12/12/02
First biopsy of left breast 12/16/02 1/17/03 2/14/03 - 5/50/03 7/2/03 1/5/04 1/15/04 Scheduled Monitoring
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Total entries in this category: Published On: Jun 08, 2004 05:26 PM |
Medical School Lecture on Sentinel Node BiopsySlides and audio of lecture from University of
Florida College of Medicine on May 1, 2002
The following website hosts the slides and audio of
a lecture given University of Florida College of Medicine on May 1,
2002.
http://medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/grounds/copeland/index.html Careful, the pictures are graphic. You will learn more than you ever wanted to know about this procedure. I guess that this slide explains why Winchester had to do with axillary dissection once he found the micrometastases in the sentinel nodes: http://medinfo.ufl.edu/cme/grounds/copeland/slide38.html Posted: Mon - January 20, 2003 at 10:51 AM |