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Breast cancer patients sought for study of lymph node removal
The Columbia River Oncolo
likely to spread - in women tients with early stage breast
gy Program (CROP) in the whose sentinel node biopsies cancer. In all, nearly 5400
women across the country will
Portland/Vancouver metropoli are negative for cancer?
Thousands
of
women participate.
tan area has begun enrolling
Selected surgeons at the
breast cancer patients in a across the country will partici
Legacy
Health System hospi
study that will shed light on the pate in this clinical trial, which
long-term effects of removing is being sponsored by the Na tals, the Providence Health
only one or a few underarm tional Cancer Institute and car System hospitals and the
lymph nodes during surgery. ried out by the National Surgi Southwest Washington Med
The new study seeks to re cal Adjuvant Breast and Bowel ical Center have been specially
solve a much-debated question Project (NSABP). Dr. Keith trained to perform the proce
in breast cancer treatment: Is it Lanier, an NSABP member dure.
Previous studies suggest
safe to remove only the sen who is heading the study at
tinel node - the first node or CROP, said that enrollment is that when the sentinel node is
nodes to which the cancer is open to newly disgnosed pa negative, the other nodes are
also negative in the majority of
cases and may not need to be
removed. A growing number of
surgeons and patients are
interested in this technique,
because removing only the
sentinel node may reduce the
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risk of side effects that some
times occur following lymph
node removal. These side ef
fects can affect quality of life
and can include lymphedema
in the arm (swelling caused by
excess fluid buildup), numb
ness, a persistent burning sen
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drains from the area of the
breast tumor and remove this
sentinel node. If it is positive for
cancer, more of the underarm,
or axillary, lymph nodes are
then removed. If the sentinel
node is negative, the other
nodes are left intact.
“The problem is that no one
knows what the long-term im
pact of removing only the sen
tinel node is on the course of
the disease,” said Dr. Lanier.
“We don’t know how is affects
survival time or cancer recur
rence. This is crucial informa
tion, which women and their
doctors need when making de
cisions about treatment, and
the new study will provide it.”
All patients who enroll in the
trial will receive radiation
and/or chemotherapy and hor
monal therapy after surgery so
that any cancer remaining in
the nodes will be treated. Re
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