A systematic review and meta-analysis compared the perioperative and oncologic outcomes of open versus minimally invasive inguinal lymphadenectomy during penile cancer surgery. A meta-analysis ...

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized INSEMA ...

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 ...

Recently, omission of axillary lymph node dissection among patients with early breast cancer has been found to have no detrimental effect on outcomes in most cases, continuing a trend toward less ...

With the goals of informing surgical management, improving long-term outcomes and lowering death rates of patients with testicular cancer, a study has found that the conventional, versatile open ...

Study finds lower mortality rates associated with excisions of higher numbers of lymph nodes in patients with intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. Removal of greater numbers of lymph nodes ...