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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lymph node status is a predictor of survival in patients with vulvar melanoma and vaginal melanoma, according to ...

Cervical cancer affects 1300 Canadians annually and accounts for roughly 400 deaths.1 The staging system used in cervical cancer is clinically based. At present, the size of the primary lesion and ...

Early-stage gastric cancer can be assessed more accurately using a new liquid biopsy tool that predicts lymph node metastasis ...

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 ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard procedure in the therapeutic management of patients with non-advanced breast cancer. To analyse the utility of ultrasound scan (USS) examination in the ...

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 — ...

This booklet is about melanoma that has spread to the lymph nodes. It is part of a series of booklets on melanoma. It has information about tests to check the lymph nodes close to the melanoma. It ...