Lymph Node Involvement in Breast Cancer: Everything You Must Know

Why do lymph nodes matter in breast cancer? How do lymph nodes influence treatment options and prognosis? Is there a difference between lymph node metastasis and metastatic breast cancer? In this video, Dr. Jennifer Griggs explains everything you need to know about lymph node involvement in breast cancer.

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[juaquiene]

I'd never heard about lymph nodes that re grow, or new ones being formed. Just assumed we had a fixed amount of them in our bodies. Learn something new every day! Thank-you Dr. Jen.

[nonyabiness]

Wow! They removed all of my lymph nodes on the right side, I didn’t know we could grow more! That’s cool!

[rebeccaherder]

Thank you!! Your videos explain things in much more detail than my doctor has time to do. I love my onc but there's just never enough time to cover everything and your videos really help fill the gaps.

[vilmavelazquez]

Thank you doctor for creating this video. These are the answers I was looking for 🙏🏻

[naththomas]

Thank you, Dr. Griggs, for your continuous medical advice.

[crispykmm]

"the body can produce extra lymphoid tissue" ? that is something i would like to know more about. Its such an amzing system.Never knew i had it, until it got 'broken' and lost a few due to cancer. Living with lymphoedema gets easier the more i learn and understand why i need to do, what i have to do, to keep swelling down and slow fibrosis.

[justcomment]

Many thanks, Dr. Griggs, for this informative video. I never knew most of this and it's reassuring to know that one can grow new lymph nodes.

[Bev-xo]

Thank you for such an informative clip. You truly do have a such a fantastic way of explaining everything.

[lesleynyborg]

Can you do a video on extranodal extension and the implication for prognosis in stage 2B, er+, pr+, her2 -? Thank you!

[tabz]

This has truly been the BEST video I have seen on this topic. Thank you so much!

[tululou]

My surgeon did not recommend removing lymph nodes for testing because I was stage 1 and grade 1, ER positive and am 73 years old. I was told, in my case, the risks outweighed the benefits. I had a lumpectomy with clean margins. I hope it was not a mistake to not test the lymph nodes. Thank you for your very informative videos!

[westcoastgirl]

Thank you . Very informative . I now understand my breast cancer better . I was stage one . I did surgery, chemo, and radiation . I was HER 2 positive . I will be taking pills . I have genetic risk of recurrence. That is why aggressive treatment was chosen . Thank you .

[VThriver]

Your videos are incredibly helpful, thank you! It would be nice if you could teach us what to expect when we stop letrozole after 10 years of treatment. Will I feel better, and if so how?

[Barbara-exge]

Thank for another informative video. A couple of questions - if a sentinel node biopsy is negative following chemotherapy and the surgery does that indicate recurrence is unlikely. Secondly I was injected with radioactive blue material injected directly into my breast prior to surgery. I understood that was to help the surgeon find the lymph nodes. I’d like to understand more about that as I took from your video that it is the pathologist who finds them. Thanks

[bobbipetty]

Love these videos, have learned alot about my breast cancer.

[karennorgaard]

So helpful! Thank you!! I wonder though if vigorous exercise forces cancer in lymph nodes to spread more quickly? It seems like it would get things flowing through the lymphatic and blood stream more readily.

[alb.]

Great video, thank you for this! I had lumpectomy for my Er+ BC, stage 1a, with two sentinel lymph nodes taken out and pathology found no cancer cells in them. However, I would like to know, if no cancer cells were found in those two sentinel nodes, is there a possibility that in axillary lymph nodes ( if they were taken out but they did not) there would be some cancer cells? From your video I understood that they can pass some lymph nodes and go in others?

[VeronicaDeBruyn]

I'm a year and 6mths cancer free I had 2 sessions of the green chemo my immune system crashed however I did have 6 sessions of radiation therapy that went well.. stradexa I took for 2and half mths this did not bid me well so discontinued talking it....I was Her2 N EP and PP ....I have a family history of blood clots and heart failure so far I'm healthy I'm 61 this year . Goodness I have so much to tell feel like I'm in therapy 😊thank you sooo much you've answered all my questions in this clip...I keep my diet clean and green also lots of protein...thank you for this platform .. 😊

[beaglerundog]

So informative! Thank you for such thorough and thoughtful information

[naththomas]

Thank you, Dr Griggs, for medical advice.