Routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck of patients with thyroid cancer may help prevent the disease from recurring, according to a new study (Surgery, December 2011, Vol. 150:6, pp. 1048-1057).

A biopsy involves removal of whole or part of the lymph node to look under the microscope for signs of infection, or cancer. Lymph nodes are filters located at intervals between the lymph channels.

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Removing at least 18 lymph nodes during neck dissections ...

Surgeons operating on patients with advanced thyroid cancer are often conflicted when deciding how many lymph nodes they should remove to reduce the patient’s risk of recurrence. Surgeons operating on ...

Mary Nelson is grateful to have survived 10 years after her breast cancer was diagnosed. The Fargo woman had a mastectomy and surgery to remove lymph nodes in an area beneath her right arm, including ...

Among patients with early-stage breast cancer that had spread to a nearby lymph node and who received treatment that included lumpectomy and radiation therapy, women who just had the sentinel lymph ...

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Women with early-stage breast cancer don't need surgery to remove malignant lymph nodes from the armpits, according to a new study finding that could spare tens of thousands of women a year from the ...

Removing lymph nodes in the neck before they are affected by oral squamous cell cancer is a life-saving measure and should be adopted as a new standard in treating the disease, according to the ...

Most older patients with ER-positive DCIS undergoing mastectomy can avoid axillary surgery, reducing unnecessary procedures. Axillary surgery is overused in patients aged 70 and older, with 93% ...

If you visit the doctor because of a sore throat, he’ll examine your lymph nodes faster than you can say “strep test.” He won’t check all of them because there are hundreds of lymph nodes in your body ...

Extensive removal of lymph nodes in the area surrounding the breast and in the armpit — a strategy designed to prevent the spread of cancer cells to the rest of the body — appears unnecessary for many ...