Author | Timothy Yeatman, MD

Articles

Lymphatic Mapping in the Treatment of Breast Cancer

September 01, 1998

ByCharles E. Cox, MS, FACS

Alan R. Shons, MD, PhD

Timothy Yeatman, MD

Solange Pendas, MD

Douglas S. Reintgen, MD

Developed initially for the treatment of malignant melanoma, lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy have recently been introduced into the treatment of early breast cancer. In breast cancer patients, harvested