For many head and neck cancers — including cancer of the thyroid, salivary gland, and mouth — a surgeon will remove the cancerous tumor as well as surrounding tissues and lymph nodes if ...

Reducing the dose of radiation to nodal regions is safe and does not impact the risk of recurrence in patients with head and neck cancer, a study suggests.

A reduced dose of elective radiation is safe and does not compromise treatment efficacy in patients with head and neck ...

Enlargement of the lymph nodes, or lymphadenopathy, can also be due to cancers such as head and neck malignancies and lymphoma. However, a rash may not be present at the same time. Call 911 or ...

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

Breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes may be treated more aggressively than localized cancer, because it has a greater potential to travel to other parts of the body. You have thousands of ...

Reduced-dose radiotherapy in head & neck cancer shows similar efficacy to standard dose but with lower toxicity, per findings ...

[102] Around 25–30% of muscle invasive bladder cancer patients, who have undergone radical cystectomy, presented with positive lymph nodes at pathologic examination. The approximate disease-free ...

A Plantation Police officer is sharing his story of survival after a months-long battle with head and neck cancer.When he<a ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...