Lymphatic mapping, a recent technique first developed for the management of melanoma, is based on the concept that information about the status of the entire lymphatic drainage from a tumor site could ...

Initial safety results from a randomized, phase II study of high-risk colorectal cancer patients (stage IIIC) treated with either regorafenib or standard of care (no treatment) after adjuvant FOLFOX.

A pilot study suggests that sustainable breast cancer surgery can be introduced in the operating room without undermining ...

Effect of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) on overall survival in metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (metMTC). Accurate detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with metastatic papillary ...

Limited data are available on survival outcomes after sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone as compared with lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer. In this multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial, we ...

DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NAVB) (“Navidea” or the “Company”), a company focused on the development of precision immunodiagnostic agents and ...

Dye is injected into the breast, one to four of the nodes is identified with a probe and removed to see if cancer cells are present. Lymph nodes are small organs, typically ranging from the size of a ...

Removal of armpit lymph nodes can leave many breast cancer patients with lingering lymphedema, a painful and unsightly swelling of the arm. For patients with clinical stage I and II melanoma, smoking ...

Axillary clearance has been used as part of surgery for breast cancer. Biopsy of lymph node tissue helps in the staging of breast cancer, providing prognostic information and identifying patients who ...