The multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Tumor Board at the Derrick L. Davis Forsyth Regional Cancer Center reviewed and recommended that a minimum of 12 lymph nodes be examined in all cases of colon ...

Introduction Accurate preoperative assessment of lymph node metastasis (LNM) is a key determinant of treatment selection in early gastric cancer (EGC), particularly when choosing between endoscopic ...

A lymph node biopsy is a test that checks for disease in your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, oval-shaped organs located in different parts of your body. They’re found close to internal organs ...

The use of artificial intelligence to detect sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer may be able to save time and reduce costs as compared with immunohistochemistry. Artificial ...

CHICAGO – Surgically removing and evaluating an increasing number of lymph nodes does not appear to identify a greater number of patients with stage III colorectal cancer, according to a report in the ...

In a trial, selected patients with early non-small cell lung cancer did not benefit from mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND). Mediastinal LND resulted in longer surgeries, increased bleeding, and ...

The analysis found that eleven percent of patients overall did not receive any axillary lymph node assessment. Compared to White patients, African Americans were ten percent more likely to receive no ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lymphedema — swelling in the limbs or trunk caused by excess fluid that can arise following cancer treatment — ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...