Publications by authors named "Diane Stoller"
Objective: Determine if Gross Margin Examination reduces margin re-excision rate. Our institutional practice is to perform Gross Margin Examination (GME) with Real-time re-excision (RRE) for all breast conservation specimens with Invasive Carcinoma.
Materials And Methods: Chart review was done to determine if this practice is helpful.
Article Synopsis
- Axillary lymph node dissection is typically done for breast cancer patients with positive sentinel lymph nodes, but this study looks at cases where sentinel nodes were initially assessed as negative by frozen section.
- Researchers followed 103 patients who were later found to have tumor cells in sentinel nodes through more definitive tests, analyzing their outcomes after completing axillary dissection.
- Results showed varying rates of involvement in nonsentinel nodes depending on the type of tumor presence in sentinel nodes, suggesting a need for further evaluation of dissection necessity for those with isolated tumor cells.