Ten-year findings suggest some patients may safely receive less treatment, potentially lowering side effects without raising ...

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 ...

A new surgical technique for women with high-risk Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS), known as a ‘delayed’ sentinel lymph node biopsy, is part of a new campaign centered on saving patients’ lymph nodes ...

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

Limited data are available on survival outcomes after sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone as compared with lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer. In this multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial, we ...

Older women with a very early, non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) gain no long-term benefit from undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...

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 ...

Adequate lymph node yield for patients with papillary thyroid cancer is associated with longer operations, longer hospitalization, and higher risk of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury and hypocalcemia, ...