What is a sentinel node biopsy? How accurate is this?
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The Sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node to which they cancer might spread. If we can take out the sentinel lymph node – or nodes because there are usually more than one – and they are clean, than the rest of the nodes are clean and don’t have to be removed. This is a very accurate method of testing whether a cancer has spread.