PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23 — Breast cancer tends to progress to nearby lymph nodes, but surgeons can find it difficult to determine what tissue to remove with the breast tumor and what to leave intact.

Fewer older women with early-stage, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer are undergoing routine sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), according to data that were presented at the ...

NSABP FR-2: Phase II study of durvalumab following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in stage II-IV rectal cancer. Dissecting the prognostic role of sidedness in metastatic colon cancer (mCC): ...

Disease-free survival for invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) patients may be easier to predict with the help of F-18-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new imaging drug to help doctors locate lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer and skin cancer. The drug Lymphoseek from Navidea ...

NEW YORK - New study findings suggest that an imaging technique involving miniscule substances that zero in on lymph nodes may be a safe and relatively inexpensive means of learning if prostate cancer ...

Phase III, randomized, open-label, multicenter trial (BREAK-3) comparing the BRAF kinase inhibitor dabrafenib (GSK2118436) with dacarbazine (DTIC) in patients with BRAFV600E-mutated melanoma. This is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo credit: Getty Images If you’ve ever experienced swollen lymph nodes, you know how uncomfortable (and temporarily concerning) ...

Health experts encourage patients to consider scheduling routine imaging for 4 to 6 weeks after receiving their second dose Maria Pasquini is the senior news editor for the human interest vertical at ...

Lymph nodes in the armpit area can become swollen after a COVID-19 vaccination, and this is a normal reaction that typically goes away with time. Our practical management plan extends the impact of ...