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.

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 ...

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 40% of patients with lymph node involvement at breast cancer diagnosis could be spared lymph node ...

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 ...

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is one of the standard-of-care therapies for breast cancer (BC) with axillary lymph node (ALN) metastases. However, the response to this therapy varies depending on the ...

In patients with high PD-L1 expression identified before surgery, clinicians should consider the possibility of lymph node metastasis when determining surgical strategy, including the extent of lymph ...