SLN Mapping for Cervical and Endometrial Cancer Continues to Evolve

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Aug 11, D Brunk

Fewer than 10% of gynecologic oncologists use sentinel lymph node mapping for cervical cancer, and less than 5% use it for endometrial cancer, according to Dr. Nadeem R. Abu-Rustum. To his mind, these rates are "a shame" in today's clinical practice."A lot of people are much more interested in learning newer, much more expensive techniques instead of investing in trying to understand the disease process, and do the operation in a more fine-tuned, precise way, to target the lymph nodes that are potentially...

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