PRACTICAL ONCOLOGY JOURNAL ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 571-574.doi: 10.11904/j.issn.1002-3070.2018.06.018

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Advances in micrometastasis of sentinel lymph node in cervical cancer

QIN Wenyan, LU Yan   

  1. Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Affiliated Tumor Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning 530021, China
  • Received:2018-07-18 Online:2018-12-28 Published:2018-12-27

Abstract: The main metastatic pathway for cervical cancer is lymph node metastasis.Sentinel lymph nodes are the first site of lymph node metastasis.Lymph node metastasis is a result of lymph node micrometastasis.However, lymph node micrometastasis is usually neglected by traditional histopathology, and undetected lymph node micrometastases may lead to recurrence.This article will introduce the progress of research on sentinel lymph node micrometastasis in cervical cancer in recent years.

Key words: Cervical cancer, Sentinel lymph node, Micrometastasis

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