At MSK, breast cancer surgery and breast reconstruction often are done during the same procedure. During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of ...

If the lymph nodes are not enlarged, then a sentinel node biopsy procedure may be done. If the sentinel lymph node does not show cancer, then it is unlikely the melanoma has spread to the lymph ...

The scenarios illustrated include disease staging (primary melanoma, satellite metastasis, in-transit metastasis, and lymphadenopathies), sentinel lymph node biopsy procedure, patient follow-up ...