Researchers find new, noninvasive way to identify lymph node met...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Wed, 01/11/2012 - 23:00

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Using two cell surface markers found to be highly expressed in breast cancer lymph node metastases, researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, working with colleagues at other institutions, have developed targeted, fluorescent molecular imaging probes that can noninvasively detect breast cancer lymph node metastases.

The new procedure could spare breast cancer patients invasive and unreliable sentinel lymph node biopsies and surgery-associated negative side effects.

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