Identification of sentinel nodes in patients with colon cancer
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2004.12.015
Identification of sentinel nodes in patients with colon cancer
Abstract
Aims: Lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy entails better staging in malignant melanoma and breast cancer and we used this technique in patients with colon cancer to possibly improve detection of lymphatic spread.
Methods: Thirty patients with invasive adenocarcinomas were investigated. The tumour status in identified sentinel node(s) was compared with the status in all other harvested regional nodes for each patient. Patients were followed at regular visits for more than 30 months.
Results: Sentinel nodes were identified in all cases, either per-operatively (28 cases) or at dissection of the formalin-fixed specimen (2 cases). The sentinel nodes were diagnostic for the entire lymphatic field in 28 patients and the false negative rate was 2/12. In four cases, the sentinel nodes were the only metastatic nodes. After at minimum 30 months, three patients had died of colon cancer metastases.
Conclusion: This method improved the identification of patients with lymph-node metastases, especially those with only few metastatic nodes. Patients dying from metastatic disease had lymph-node metastases at diagnosis.
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