Lymph nodes are small bean shaped glands found throughout the body, including the head and neck. They are part of the lymphatic system that filters body fluid and fights infection. They also trap ...

Cancer of the larynx sometimes spreads to the lymph nodes in the neck. Surgery to remove lymph nodes from your neck is called a neck dissection. When you might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in ...

compared the results of ultrasound scans with the pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients who underwent neck surgery for DTC recurrence. Of 578 lymph nodes resected ...

Lymph nodes filter lymph waste, which clears dangerous cells like cancer ... They’re part of the cervical lymph nodes, the ...

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

anus), negative nodes IIIA Tumor of any size with positive inguino-femoral lymph nodes (i) 1 lymph node metastasis greater than or equal to 5 mm ...

Check for inguinal lymph nodes ... more severe cervical disease. As explained previously, the results of VIA are reported as VIA-negative, VIA-positive, or suspicious for cancer.

It was once thought that breast cancer spreads (metastasizes) first to nearby tissue and underarm lymph nodes before spreading to other parts of the body. Scientists now believe that cancer cells may ...

One new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, examines whether removing lymph nodes is always necessary in early breast cancer. Another in the Journal of the American Medical ...