Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to assess the incidence of lymph node metastases among patients with papillary thyroid cancer.

Some lymph nodes are typically removed when the operation is done for a cancer. The incisions are closed with sutures and a drainage tube is typically left in for one night. After the surgery, ...

Kosty, medical director of thoracic oncology at Scripps MD Anderson ... stage 1 tumors and/or have begun to spread to nearby lymph nodes Stage 3: typically has spread to lymph nodes located ...

Additionally, lymph node dissection, a process of removing lymph nodes to assess or manage disease, is also performed. Once the tumor is removed, reconstruction of the pericardium (sac around the ...

Researchers have developed lab-generated lymph node–like organoids that, when transplanted into mice in place of lymph nodes that have been removed, drain fluid and connect to the animals’ original ...