Sentinel node theory helps tracking of primary lesions of cancers of unknown primary

Abstract Background Sentinel lymph node is the first stop of lymphatic spreading of cancer with known primary. The lymph node metastasis pattern of cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is unclear and has been presumed to follow the same pathway. To test this hypothesis, data of all 716 patients clinicall...

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Main Authors: Yilin Shao, Xin Liu, Silong Hu, Yingjian Zhang, Wentao Li, Xiaoyan Zhou, Qifeng Wang, Yifeng Hou, Yong Chen, Yanli Wang, Yaohui Wang, Zhiguo Luo, Xichun Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-020-07042-6