Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumor types. Yet recent research is challenging parts of this long-standing practice. Imagine your body's immune defenses ...

Apollo Hospitals Chennai, a leader in robotic-assisted cancer care, has performed the world's first Video Endoscopic Inguinal ...

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, ...

ULTRASOUND achieved diagnostic accuracy comparable to PET/CT and diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) for preoperative pelvic ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Lymph node surgery to check for the spread of breast cancer could be avoided even in women with aggressive cancers if they respond well to initial chemotherapy, suggest the results ...

A longstanding approach to surgeries for children with kidney tumors has been an abundance of caution. While a growing body of evidence demonstrates that children who have extended lymph node sampling ...

Applies to most patients with one or two positive sentinel lymph nodes ...

The lymph nodes in the armpit are often the first place breast cancer spreads to. Everyone with invasive breast cancer currently has to undergo surgery to remove lymph nodes to check for cancer cells.

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 ...

A multicenter study led from Finland 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.

When it comes to cancer, the general idea is less is more. The fewer tumor and malignant cells that are left behind by treatment, the greater the chances of surviving the disease.more Now a ...