In colon cancer, location is important. Evidence is building up to show a significant difference in survival when malignancies emerge on the right side of the colon compared with those that arise on ...

According to findings from a 63-center international study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, complete lymph node excision may not be essential for improved outcomes in melanoma.

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 ...

Patients with breast cancer that has started to spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit can safely avoid extensive removal of the lymph nodes if their treatment is tailored to their response to cancer ...

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).

(KUTV) Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer, which is why in the past, if this type of cancer had spread, it meant lymph node removal. However, new research show there might be a better ...

Extended lymphadenectomy did not improve disease-free or overall survival compared to standard lymphadenectomy in muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients. Higher perioperative morbidity and mortality ...

Removing lymph nodes that appear unaffected by ovarian cancer won’t help and might hurt. If advanced ovarian cancer has not visibly spread to a patient’s lymph nodes, removing the nodes is not only ...

THURSDAY, Dec. 6, 2018 -- For many breast cancer patients, removal of lymph nodes in the armpit area is a common procedure, due to worries that the tumor has spread to these tissues. But the operation ...

Evaluation of patients with surgically resected high-risk melanoma receiving adjuvant therapy in routine clinical practice in the United States. *Median (IQR). Millimeters (mm). This is an ASCO ...