Maggie O’Neill is a health writer and reporter based in New York who specializes in covering medical research and emerging wellness trends, with a focus on cancer and addiction. Prior to her ...

The lymph nodes are small, round organs that are part of the immune system. Your lymph nodes live in different areas of the ...

A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

compared the results of ultrasound scans with the pathological findings from dissected lymph nodes of 19 patients who underwent neck surgery for DTC recurrence. Of 578 lymph nodes resected ...

Patients with breast cancer that has started to spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit can safely avoid extensive removal of the lymph nodes if their treatment is tailored to their response to cancer ...

The procedure targets the first draining lymph nodes, reducing unnecessary removal if these nodes are cancer-free. Effective systemic therapies have enhanced patient outcomes, supporting the shift to ...

Establishment of an upper limit for node size by specific location, analogous to that which has been reported for mediastinal lymph nodes, was sought. Short-axis diameters of the lymph nodes were ...