July 17, 2012 — A thorough lymph node examination can enhance the detection of unexpected metastatic disease in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but current practices are suboptimal, ...

Predicting breast cancer spread from a sentinel lymph node removed during surgery is a hit or miss affair, say researchers: there are still many false negatives, which means the node, when analyzed ...

Incidence of brain metastases as a first site of recurrence among women with triple receptor-negative breast cancer. A multicenter randomized phase III trial of nonpegylated liposome-encapsulated ...

When one of the nodes were put under the microscope, the doctors found pigments from tattoo ink that she’d got 15 years back. They speculated that her immune system was not reacting to the tattoo ink ...

Randomized Phase II Study of Erlotinib in Combination With Placebo or R1507, a Monoclonal Antibody to Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Receptor, for Advanced-Stage Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer The ...

Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, a measurement that has been recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient survival, ...