Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) is a procedure to remove lymph nodes in the underarm area when breast cancer has spread, aiming to prevent further spread and recurrence. The procedure involves ...

Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a ...

Routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck of patients with thyroid cancer may help prevent the disease from recurring, according to a new study (Surgery, December 2011, Vol. 150:6, pp. 1048-1057).

Which patients is this strategy targeting? The inclusion was limited to stage I patients, presentations no longer considered locally advanced. Matted nodes were excluded explicitly, and the high ...

On the basis of National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines, clinical stage (CS) II seminoma is treated with radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Primary retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) ...

According to a new analysis, PLND does not impact recurrence-free survival but may reduce metastatic spread in intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. The benefit of PLND is most evident in ...