Lumpectomy with Sentinel Node Biopsy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Barbara Smith, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Barbara Smith at MGH performs a lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy on a female patient who had palpable breast cancer. This case was part of a study featuring Lumicell technology, which looks for residual tumor following the lumpectomy with the goal of reducing rates of recurrence.
Bilateral Modified Radical Neck Dissection
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven
Tobias Carling, MD, PhD, FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
Yale School of Medicine
In 2014, a now 61-year-old male had a total thyroidectomy and central neck dissection for bilateral papillary thyroid cancer with extrathyroidal extension. Now, after presenting with recurrent metastatic papillary thyroid cancer, Dr. Tobias Carling performs a bilateral modified radical neck dissection.