Sentinel node staging of resectable colon cancer: Results of CALGB 80001

Sentinel Node Mapping does not Improve Staging of Lymph Node Metastasis in Colonic Cancer

“…A main strength of the study is that all lymph nodes have been treated equally and processed in an identical fashion. Only few other studies 28,29 have used the ultraprocessing technique on both sentinel and nonsentinel nodes, and they have obtained sensitivity and false-negative rates within the range of ours. Most studies 20-26 use ultraprocessing techniques only on the sentinel nodes, and include micrometastases and submicrometastases found in the sentinel nodes as ordinary metastases, giving a higher sensitivity and lower rate of false negativity when the nonsentinel nodes are not examined.…”

Sentinel lymph node mapping as a side-effect of colonoscopic tattooing

“…High falsenegative rates are reported in several multicenter studies [11][12][13]. Other authors show more favorable results [8,9].…”

Laparoscopic lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node detection in colon cancer: technical aspects and preliminary results

“…Falsenegative rates in fact varied from 0% to 60% [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31]. This astonishing range has several explanations.…”