Cancer can spread to: close by lymph nodes in the tummy (abdomen) – these are called regional lymph nodes lymph nodes further away, for example close to your collar bone – these are called distant ...

Breast cancer relapse indicates that the cancer has returned after a few years in remission. The return may occur in ...

or multiple lymph nodes, none more than 5 cm in greatest dimension N2 Multiple regional lymph node metastasis in the true pelvis (hypogastric, obturator, external iliac or presacral lymph node ...

Sentinel lymph nodes are those that directly drain the lymph from the primary tumour. Consequently, they are the first lymph nodes to potentially receive metastatic cells. When breast cancer ...

compared the results of ultrasound scans with the pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients who underwent neck surgery for DTC recurrence. Of 578 lymph nodes resected ...

Additionally, regional nodal irradiation is something that is not indicated in the vast majority of patients where omission of sentinel lymph node biopsy is prescribed and recommended, and that is ...

That's because infections often cause swollen lymph nodes (medically known as lymphadenopathy), but this is not the only ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...