Routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck of patients with thyroid cancer may help prevent the disease from recurring, according to a new study (Surgery, December 2011, Vol. 150:6, pp. 1048-1057).

Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is a procedure to remove lymph nodes in the underarm area when breast cancer has spread, aiming to prevent further spread and recurrence. The procedure involves ...

Patients who had residual disease in the MARI node had further lymph nodes removed: known as an axillary lymph node dissection. All patients received radiation treatment." The MARI procedure had a ...

Mary Nelson is grateful to have survived 10 years after her breast cancer was diagnosed. The Fargo woman had a mastectomy and surgery to remove lymph nodes in an area beneath her right arm, including ...

Biopsy of the sentinel lymph node, the first lymph node to which fluid from a primary breast tumor drains, was associated with better arm function and better quality of life compared with standard ...

Barcelona, Spain: Using an ultrasound-guided fine needle to biopsy lymph nodes could spare thousands of melanoma patients every year worldwide from having to undergo unnecessary and sometimes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 40% of patients with lymph node involvement at breast cancer diagnosis could be spared lymph node ...

Biopsies of so-called "sentinel" lymph nodes under the arms should become more widespread among breast cancer patients, according to updated guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Oncology ...

A study has shown that lymph node transfer is a viable treatment for the swelling in the affected limb, a condition known as lymphedema, after breast cancer surgery. However, an effective drug to ...

Final results from the SWOG S1011 randomized Phase III clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, indicate patients undergoing surgery for localized muscle-invasive bladder ...

Women with early breast cancer may not need to have surgery to remove cancerous lymph nodes under the armpit, US researchers said on Tuesday. The finding may spare many women the pain and years of ...