July 17, 2012 — A thorough lymph node examination can enhance the detection of unexpected metastatic disease in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but current practices are suboptimal, ...

For patients with breast cancer treated with preoperative chemotherapy, residual tumour burden in lymph nodes is the strongest prognostic factor. However, conventional pathological examination has ...

International, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Phase III Study of Motesanib Plus Carboplatin/Paclitaxel in Patients With Advanced Nonsquamous Non–Small ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 37-year-old woman, and I have some enlarged lymph nodes under my arm. One node has been enlarged for at least six months. Should I be concerned? Is it possible for fibrocystic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A higher number of examined lymph nodes resulted in more accurate node staging and improved long-term survival ...

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 ...

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, ...