Studies on whether pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) provides a survival benefit in men with prostate cancer having surgery ...

Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward less ...

Trial in progress update on ENGOT-cx8/GOG-3024/innovaTV 205: Addition of a new cohort with first-line (1L) tisotumab vedotin (TV) + pembrolizumab (pembro) + carboplatin (carbo) ± bevacizumab (bev) in ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node ...

Targeted axillary dissection (TAD) is a relatively new breast cancer procedure. It allows surgical oncologists to specifically locate a lymph node that contained cancer before chemotherapy, remove it ...

Lymphedema is a chronic swelling or edema in a limb caused by a build-up of lymph fluid. This happens when the lymphatic system is damaged in some way. One common cause of damage is surgery, ...

Standard limb precautions -- such as avoiding blood pressure measurements and venipuncture in the ipsilateral arm -- may not decrease the incidence of lymphedema in patients who undergo breast cancer ...

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 ...

Lymph node metastasis occurs in "metastatic" lymph nodes, lymph nodes that have been infected by cancer from elsewhere in the body. A part of the immune system, lymph nodes are tiny ovals placed ...