These lumps are lymph nodes or glands that are located all over the body, including behind the ears, and contain immune cells ...

She has been working at PEOPLE since 2017. Although swollen lymph nodes can be a sign of cancer, doctors are cautioning people who have recently received the COVID-19 vaccine not to jump to any ...

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

As cancer survival rates rise, the long-term side effects that cancer and its treatment takes on the body has increasingly ...

Of 578 lymph nodes resected, 56 could be definitively ... Both the sensitivity and specificity of peripheral vascularization were >80%; therefore, the authors recommend use of Doppler imaging ...

The surgery is performed if tests show that the cancer has spread from the breast tissue to the lymph nodes and is often followed by radiation treatment. After the treatment, around 20-40 percent ...

Minh Nguyen, MS2, from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, presented findings on the evolving trends in pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) during radical prostatectomy. Her ...

Lymph node metastasis was uncommon among clinically node-negative PTC patients without evidence of nodal involvement on USG and CT.

Homeostasis is a fundamental principle of biological systems. A paradigm of immune homeostasis is the remarkably constant number of naive T and B lymphocytes in the body that continuously ...