The multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Tumor Board at the Derrick L. Davis Forsyth Regional Cancer Center reviewed and recommended that a minimum of 12 lymph nodes be examined in all cases of colon ...

Introduction Accurate preoperative assessment of lymph node metastasis (LNM) is a key determinant of treatment selection in early gastric cancer (EGC), particularly when choosing between endoscopic ...

编者按：手术仍然是治疗可切除的肝内胆管癌（ICC）患者的主要手段，而淋巴结切除术（LND）在ICC治疗中的作用一直存在争议。当行LND时，需要切除肝门淋巴结吗？本文中，加州大学戴维斯分校外科系Sepideh Gholami博士和塞达斯西奈医院的塞缪尔·奥辛癌症中心的 ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is a standard procedure in the therapeutic management of patients with non-advanced breast cancer. To analyse the utility of ultrasound scan (USS) examination in the ...

A lymph node biopsy is a test that checks for disease in your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, oval-shaped organs located in different parts of your body. They’re found close to internal organs ...

November 29, 2007 — A startling 11% of those in a 200,000-patient national sample did not receive a lymph node assessment while undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer. The recommended ...

CHICAGO – Surgically removing and evaluating an increasing number of lymph nodes does not appear to identify a greater number of patients with stage III colorectal cancer, according to a report in the ...

The disparities in survival among node-positive breast cancer patients of African American and Hispanic heritage are not explained by nodal surgery utilization. Proportions of patients receiving SLNB ...