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Lymph nodes don't cause Breast cancer. Lymph nodes in the armpit (axilla) are typically the first nodes to be affected by breast cancer.
Mammary gland
Mammary gland
swollen gland wthin the breast
If you have breast cancer and you just had your lymph nodes removed, a hospital stay is very important.
The significance of enlarged lymph nodes connected to breast cancer is that when these lymph nodes get enlarged by either cancerous cells or other problems, it may be felt at breast examination.
The first station for the spread of breast cancer is the lymph nodes in the axilla then to the lymph nodes in the neck. If a patient has a biopsy it is not uncommon to have a test on the lymphnodes there.
Breast cancer most commonly metastasises first to lymph nodes in the axilla of the same side as the affected breast. In more advanced disease, the cancer commonly metastasises to lymph nodes in other regions, to bone, to the liver, and/or to the lungs, and later possibly also to the contralateral breast and to other organs. When there is no evident lymph node metastasis or distant metastasis, the sentinel node may be examined to confirm absence of axillary lymph node metastasis. The lymph nodes in the axilla drain fluid (lymph) from the breast by interconnecting lymph vessels, and the "sentinel node" is the first node to receive lymph from the particular tumour. If there is no tumour in the sentinel node (and no signs of metastasis to other sites), breast cancer has a very good chance of cure after treatment.
The different stages of breast cancer refer to how far the cancerous tumor has spread in the body. In Stage 2, the cancer is still relatively small and contained in the breast. It may or may not have reached the lymph nodes.
removal of a lymph gland
It means that the cancer is no longer confined to the gland itself. It has moved to the lymph nodes in the abdomen.
Cancer can arise anywhere in the human body!
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