Sentinel Lymph Node Detection In Patients With Cervical Cancer-Juniper Publishers
Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine Juniper Publishers Authored by: Yasmina José Gutiérrez* Introduction The current standard of care for women who will be diagnosed with cervical cáncer includes radical hysterectomy or trachelectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy. For women with early-stage cervical cancer, lymph node status is the most important prognosticator of survival. However, the majority of these patients will not have lymph node metastases. For women with cervical cancer, ideally we would optimize the identification of positive lymph node spread in the minority of patients while limiting the morbidity of lymph node dissection for the majority of women who will ultimately have negative nodes. For that reason, there is significant interest in validating lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy for women with this disease. The sentinel lymph node is the first node that receives drainage from the primary tumor. Therefore, if th...