Breast Cancer Hospital Lymph Nodes Study Shows No Difference
There is new research available regarding women with early-stage breast cancer from the various breast cancer hospital treatment centers and their physicians gathered from around the world. Many women were studied that had early-stage breast cancer and were given a lumpectomy, which is a standard procedure to remove the lymph nodes under the arms, may not be a necessary operation. This procedure left women with extremely swollen and sore arms afterwards.
The study looked at those women who did not have their lymph nodes removed, and avoided the painful surgery and recovery, and it seemed that it made no difference in their life expectancy, their survival rate or the prevention of a reoccurrence of their breast cancers.