On September 18th, I underwent breast cancer surgery. A total mastectomy of the right breast and an axillary lymph node ...

Ann Joseph, MD, MPH, FACS, System Director of Breast Surgical Services, RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute and ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized INSEMA ...

First-Line, Fixed-Duration Nivolumab Plus Ipilimumab Followed by Nivolumab in Clinically Diverse Patient Populations With Unresectable Stage III or IV Melanoma: CheckMate 401 Patients who underwent ...

A recent prospective trial showed sentinel lymph node surgery has a clinically significant high false negative rate in breast cancer patients with node-positive disease receiving neoadjuvant ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, and surgical resection with lymphadenectomy is the only potentially curative option. Lymphadenectomy—the systematic ...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common form of thyroid cancer, and in its earliest stages it often behaves in a deceptively quiet way. When imaging shows a small tumor confined to the thyroid ...

Removing neck lymph nodes can block brain fluid drainage, leading to ventricular enlargement and cognitive decline.