BARCELONA, Spain — Lymph node surgery to check for the spread of breast cancer could be avoided even in women with aggressive cancers if they respond well to initial chemotherapy, suggest the results ...

New data show growing adoption of guidance to skip sentinel lymph node biopsy in older women with early breast cancer, though ...

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

Patients with breast cancer may be able to avoid lymphedema, which can occur after surgery to remove lymph nodes in the ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...

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 ...

Active surveillance in sentinel lymph node positive melanoma could delay surgery but may result in the same risk of the cancer coming back. Ultrasound monitoring may be an alternative to surgical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than 40% of patients with lymph node involvement at breast cancer diagnosis could be spared lymph node ...

MITO (Multicentre Italian Trials in Ovarian cancer): CERV 2 trial—A randomized phase II study of carboplatin and paclitaxel +/- cetuximab, in advanced and/or recurrent cervical cancer. This is an ASCO ...

A study has shown that lymph node transfer is a viable treatment for the swelling in the affected limb, a condition known as lymphedema, after breast cancer surgery. However, an effective drug to ...

Older women with a very early, non-invasive breast cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) gain no long-term benefit from undergoing a sentinel lymph node biopsy to see if the cancer has ...