From Local Invasion to Metastatic Cancer Involvement of Distant Sites Through the Lymphovascular System /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leong, Stanley P. L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Current Clinical Oncology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Surgical oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Oncology.

In human solid tumors, nodal status is the most important prognostic indicator for patient outcome. Recent developments in the sentinel lymph node concept have resulted in new procedures to define the first draining node as the primary gateway through which the cancer will spread. In From Local Inva...