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Surgical Management in Breast Cancer -
Surgical Removal of Lymph Nodes - Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy vs. Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND)
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Medhavi Gupta, MD
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Dr. Medhavi Gupta, one of the participants in this past year's GRACE Patient Education Ambassador Program, shares a fantastic video series on Breast Cancer.

For this first series, Dr. Gupta discusses Surgical Management in Breast Cancer with Dr. Jessica Young.

 

In this video, Drs. Gupta and Young discuss surgical management in breast cancer and the surgical removal of lymph nodes - sentinel lymph node biopsy vs. axillary lymph node dissection (ALND).

 

#breastcancer #surgery #cancerGRACE #genentech #lilly

 

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