Requiring patients to undergo routine central lymph node dissection when having surgery for papillary thyroid cancer resulted in lower post-operative thyroglobulin levels and lower rates of central ...

Q: What are lymph nodes, and why are they important in cancer diagnosis? A: Lymph nodes are part of the immune system. They act like filters and are important in cancer diagnosis because they contain ...

A new study 1 found that the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) produced similar overall survival in patients ...

Axillary lymph node dissection is done in conjunction with lumpectomy or mastectomy to determine if breast cancer has spread to the adjoining lymph nodes. The conventional surgical approach leaves a ...

The role of pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in patients with localized prostate cancer remains controversial. Although guidelines are increasingly recommending extended PLND alongside radical ...

For years, surgery for patients with stage III melanoma - melanoma that has spread to the lymph nodes - involved removing those lymph nodes along with the primary tumor. Known as completion lymph node ...

The disparities in survival among node-positive breast cancer patients of African American and Hispanic heritage are not explained by nodal surgery utilization. Proportions of patients receiving SLNB ...

On the basis of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, clinical stage (CS) II seminoma is treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Primary retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) ...

Among patients with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to a nearby lymph node and who received treatment that included lumpectomy and radiation therapy, women who just had the sentinel lymph ...

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A new study, presented at this week s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, indicates that a finding of a positive sentinel lymph node in the axilla (armpit) of a breast ...