Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...

Oncologic and complication rates generally favored the minimally invasive approach to inguinal lymph node dissection in penile cancer surgery. Minimally invasive approaches to inguinal lymph node ...

When the bladder is surgically removed (an operation called radical cystectomy) to treat bladder cancer, surgeons also remove nearby lymph nodes, small glands that are part of the immune system. This ...

Credit: Getty Images Nevertheless, thorough extended pelvic lymph node dissection cannot be omitted, investigators cautioned. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-guided radical prostatectomy (RP ...

Pelvic lymph node dissection is the only reliable method of staging for clinically localized prostate cancer. Despite the obvious prognostic advantages conferred by accurate staging, pelvic lymph node ...

A phase II study of weekly carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel with trastuzumab or bevacizumab as neoadjuvant therapy for patients with early-stage nonmetastatic breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

In a trial, selected patients with early non-small cell lung cancer did not benefit from mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND). Mediastinal LND resulted in longer surgeries, increased bleeding, and ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Thoracic surgeons were fired up about minimum expectations for surgical lymph node assessment in conjunction with lung cancer resection during a debate at the Society of Thoracic ...

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Sentinel lymph node (SLN) resection has been advocated as an option to reduce morbidity for women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. When the sentinel node is negative for breast cancer, SLN ...