Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy Procedure: Key Facts You Need To Know Posted on June 19, 2018 at 10:33 pm.Written by Valerie Gorman, MD, FACS Cancer is perhaps the scariest word in the dictionary, capable of striking fear into the heart of anyone who hears it inside of a second. Part of the problem is that the minute a doctor says that word, anything that he or she says subsequently becomes a total blur. It is like the patient is trying to listen to the doctor while being underwater. That’s the reason we have a resource section on our site. This article answers questions about the procedure for a biopsy of the sentinel lymph node. Continue reading…