This means you will have several small cuts (incisions) rather than one longer one. This is sometimes called laparoscopic or robotic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Keyhole surgery is very ...

THIS YEAR the Spanish capital, Madrid, provided the backdrop for Europe’s biggest urological event, the 40th Annual European ...

Trials evaluating the safety and necessity of omitting systemic mediastinal lymph node (mLN) dissection in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are still absent. Methods: cN0/N1 NSCLC patients who ...

A lymph node dissection is a surgical procedure that involves the removal of the level 1 and 2 lymph nodes in the axilla (armpit). Removing a few lymph nodes doesn’t always cause problems and it ...

Lymph nodes (LNs) are the staging grounds for anti-tumor immunity, therefore their high susceptibility to metastatic colonization is a paradox. Previous studies have suggested that extrinsic ...

Married Chris from Sandbach, Cheshire, said: “The cancer had already spread to my pelvic lymph nodes and to a vessel near the bladder. “As a result, the prognosis was very poor with the ...

The role of lymph nodes as the initial site of immune defense remains controversial, particularly regarding whether complete dissection or preservation is necessary during breast cancer surgery.