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Some patients with breast cancer may be able to skip axillary lymph node dissection if they plan to have adjuvant nodal radiation.

Paramagnetic seeds work as well as guidewires for breast tumor localization and are easier to use, but it's not yet clear whether the costs of the seeds outweigh the benefits.

Patients with breast cancer might be eligible to enroll in one of these clinical trials.

The new approval expands the melanoma indication for nivolumab to earlier-stage disease.

Patients with early breast cancer and negative ultrasound axillary lymph node staging had similar locoregional relapse and distant DFS at 5 years whether or not they received SLN biopsy.

Mohs micrographic surgery may be more effective than wide local excision as a surgical treatment for localized T1/T2 Merkel cell carcinoma.

Pathology analysis of sentinel lymph nodes during mastectomy for early stage breast cancer is more likely to result in over-aggressive axillary management, suggested a US study.

An expert panel recommended a risk-stratified approach to screening, but the jury is still out for gene expression profile testing.

Risk factors for melanoma in children are like those in adults, and include a family history of melanoma, large/giant congenital nevi, and the presence of many atypical appearing nevi.