Agnė Čižauskaitė, Donatas Petrauskas, Dainius Šimčikas, Alvydas Česas Abstract Objective. To evaluate the predictable percentage of patients that could be eligible for sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in Klaipeda University Hospital Breast Surgery Department. Background. Although SLNB is a standard staging method for axillar node status assessment for early- stage clinically…
Agnė Čižauskaitė, Donatas Petrauskas, Gintaras Gelžinis, Marija Sakalauskaitė, Alvydas Česas Abstract Melanoma is a malignant cutaneous disease that has the highest mortality among all the cancers of the skin. The incidence of this malignancy is increasing worldwide. Sentinel lymph node biopsy for IB and II stage melanoma is established as a standard treatment. Though there…
Agnė Čižauskaitė, Donatas Petrauskas, Gintaras Gelžinis, Marija Sakalauskaitė Abstract Breast cancer is one of the first most commonly diagnosed typeof cancer in women and also the most frequent cause of cancerrelateddeath in Lithuania as well as in Europe. The sentinel lymphnode biopsy is established to be a ‚golden standard‘ in breast cancersurgery. Since the survival…
