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 ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized INSEMA ...

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, ...

Pathologic Complete Response and Individual Patient Prognosis After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Plus Anti–Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Therapy of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor ...

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 ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Most patients whose breast cancer has spread to their lymph nodes ...

A study 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. However, an effective drug to ...

With the goals of informing surgical management, improving long-term outcomes and lowering death rates of patients with testicular cancer, a study has found that the conventional, versatile open ...

Data from a Phase III clinical trial of 99m-Tc-tilmanocept, also known as Lymphoseek (Navidea Biopharmaceuticals) in oral and squamous cell cancers (SCC) suggest it may be improve surgical treatment ...

Purpose The long-term toxicities of chemotherapy and radiotherapy can represent a significant burden to testicular cancer survivors. Retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) is an established ...