Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of ...

Incidence of brain metastases as a first site of recurrence among women with triple receptor-negative breast cancer. A multicenter randomized phase III trial of nonpegylated liposome-encapsulated ...

November 14, 2007 — The examination of a large number of lymph nodes in colon cancer patients after colectomy does not appear to influence survival rates, researchers report. Even though several ...

As a result, higher hospital lymph node examination rates did not result in greater detection of patients with node-positive tumors or higher rates of adjuvant chemotherapy." "Using lymph node counts ...

WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 vaccines have a number of side effects that are expected to follow the shots. One of those, swollen lymph nodes, has become a cause for concern for some radiologists. That's ...

Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, a measurement that has been recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient survival, ...