| In recently years, the incidence of breast cancer in our nation is rising constantly As low cure rate it is,which serious injure to people’s physical and mantal health.Families and the society also caused a great financial burden at the same time. If breast cancer want to be cured, multidisciplinary team is needed. This idear is accepted wildly in nowadays and the operation treatment comes first. Since the application of radical mastectomy, Operation mathed has changes a lot, which reflecting the therapies conceptions translated. But all the treatments require axillary lymph node dissection. These operations due to lots of postoperative complications,long-time hospitalization, and severe deformities of the appearance. With the development of economy of the society, people are pay more attention to health. The traditional approach of breast cancer surgery can not meet peoplee’s requirement. The surgeon must seek new methods to achieve the purpose of minimize the complications. The finding of Sentinel Lymph Node(SLN) has promoted the development of breast cancer. Breast sentinel lymphy node biopsy(SLNB) has been used to breast cancer treatment. With it’s advantages of slightly trauma, less postoperative complications, patients recover faster. meanwhile, shortoned hospitial-stay and other advantages makes patients who have no metastatic carcinoma in SLN which were verify by the pathological examination can avoid axillary lymph node dissection(ALND), just this adventage can bring heathy benefits to patients a lot.Many scholars both at home and abroad, have been trying to expand the application areas of SLNB, and verify the reliability of it. Many good examples have been reprted, such as breast reconstruction combination with SLNB during the operation,lumpectomy,etc. The study of SLNB for breast cancer can provides us with the broader thinking. This article is aimed at introduce new progress and application of SLNB in breast cancer surgery. |