Axillary lymph node evaluation is performed frequently in women with ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer, despite recommendations generally against such an assessment procedure in women with ...

July 22, 2009 — Increased retrieval and evaluation of lymph nodes do not improve detection of stage III colorectal cancer or identify more patients with positive nodes, according to research published ...

The number of lymph nodes removed and examined for tumor cells appears to be associated with the likelihood of survival after surgery in colon cancer patients, according to a study in the March 21 ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...

Efficiency of Colorectal Cancer Care Among Veterans: Analysis of Treatment Wait Times at Veterans Affairs Medical Centers We used the 1988 to 2009 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program ...

Evaluation of the hilar and mediastinal lymph nodes is part of the surgical treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). It is also vital to the staging of lung cancer, which determines the need ...

Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2013;13(11):1281-1295. Essentially, there are two phases where the pathologic examination can influence the lymph nodes evaluation: the macroscopic dissection and ...

We have established a highly sensitive and quantitative reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT–PCR) method to detect axillary lymph node metastases of breast cancer. Amplifying ...

Phase I Study of Concurrent Weekly Docetaxel and Repeated Samarium-153 Lexidronam in Patients With Castration-Resistant Metastatic Prostate Cancer Sentinel node biopsy is used to evaluate the nodal ...