Definition
The total number of sentinel lymph nodes examined by the pathologist. A sentinel lymph node is the first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumour.
References
National Cancer Institute, U.S National Institutes of Health http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=45876
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