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 ...

November 29, 2007 — A startling 11% of those in a 200,000-patient national sample did not receive a lymph node assessment while undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer. The recommended ...

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 ...

Women with surgically treated ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, regularly underwent axillary lymph node evaluation, despite guidelines recommending against its use in this setting, according to study ...

The disparities in survival among node-positive breast cancer patients of African American and Hispanic heritage are not explained by nodal surgery utilization. Proportions of patients receiving SLNB ...

NEW ORLEANS -- More extensive N1 lymph node assessment may better guide therapy after non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resections with curative intent, real-world data suggested. The more N1 ...

Allison Gandey is a journalist for Medscape. She is the former science affairs analyst for the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Allison, who has a master of journalism specializing in science ...

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 ...

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 ...