Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping at Medical Drugs Glossary

What is Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping? The use of dyes and radioactive substances to identify the first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumor. Cancer cells may appear first in the sentinel node before spreading to other lymph nodes and other places in the body.

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