Lymph nodes are clustered throughout the body and function as filters, removing foreign particles from fluids that run ...

This disease is always defined as stage 3 or stage 4 at diagnosis. In stage 3 disease, cancer may have metastasized (spread) ...

or multiple lymph nodes, none more than 5 cm in greatest dimension N2 Multiple regional lymph node metastasis in the true pelvis (hypogastric, obturator, external iliac or presacral lymph node ...

Surgery is the main treatment. Some women need chemotherapy. Stage 3 ovarian cancer has spread outside the pelvis into the abdominal cavity or to lymph nodes. Treatment is surgery and chemotherapy. It ...

Surgery includes a radical hysterectomy, which involves removal of the parametria, uterosacral ligaments and a 2- to 3-cm cuff of the vagina, and dissection of pelvic lymph nodes. Oophorectomy is ...

They will also check where the cancer has spread to in your pelvis and if it is in your lymph nodes. Your gynaecological oncologist will aim to remove as ... called neoadjuvant chemotherapy with ...