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sentinel lymph node

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-007668

The first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumor. When cancer spreads, the cancer cells may appear first in the sentinel node before spreading to other lymph nodes.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-007668
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-007668",
  "term": "sentinel lymph node",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "The first lymph node to which cancer is likely to spread from the primary tumor. When cancer spreads, the cancer cells may appear first in the sentinel node before spreading to other lymph nodes.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/sentinel-lymph-node/"
}

Record 14,841 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.