Emma Rossi, MD, in the UNC Department of Obstetric and Gynecology's Division of Gynecologic Oncology, has published a study in Lancet Oncology online that identifies sentinel-lymph-node mapping as a ...

Experts in endometrial cancer suggest there should be a change in the standard of care, after the largest study to date found that sentinel lymph node biopsy is as accurate for identifying metastasis ...

Studies in breast cancer, melanoma, colon cancer, lung cancer and almost all solid malignancies that spread to lymph nodes have confirmed that metastatic cells move in an orderly manner from the ...

Effect of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) on overall survival in metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (metMTC). Accurate detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with metastatic papillary ...

Limited data are available on survival outcomes after sentinel-lymph-node biopsy alone as compared with lymphadenectomy in cervical cancer. In this multicenter, randomized, noninferiority trial, we ...

A green fluorescent dye beat the standard blue dye for mapping lymph nodes when the two were compared directly in women with uterine or cervical cancers. The finding comes from a phase 3 ...

The goal of this study was to describe the pathologic findings and early follow-up experience of patients who underwent a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Skipping sentinel lymph node biopsy can be considered for node-negative, HR-positive, HER2-negative early breast ...

New Orleans, LA – Eugene A. Woltering, MD, FACS, The James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Sections of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, ...

The sentinel lymph node (SLN) is the lymph node that represents the 'gate-keeper' of the lymphatic basin; it is the first node to receive lymphatic drainage from the site of the primary tumor. SLN ...

A lymph node biopsy is a test that checks for disease in your lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are small, oval-shaped organs located in different parts of your body. They’re found close to internal organs ...