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 ...

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 ...

Trial in progress update on ENGOT-cx8/GOG-3024/innovaTV 205: Addition of a new cohort with first-line (1L) tisotumab vedotin (TV) + pembrolizumab (pembro) + carboplatin (carbo) ± bevacizumab (bev) in ...

Toxicity and psychological impact of TPF induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy or by surgery plus radiotherapy in stage III-IV oropharyngeal cancer: A longitudinal comparison ...

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).

French investigators are suggesting that sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy should replace neck lymph node dissection as the new standard for detecting occult metastases in patients with T1-T2N0 oral ...

There’s a paucity of data regarding the effectiveness of lymph node dissection (LND) in improving oncologic outcomes in high-risk patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC). In a recent study, ...

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 ...

Cervical lymph nodes are small nodes or glands in the neck. Swelling in the neck may indicate a nearby infection or other health condition. Treatment for cervical lymph nodes can depend on the cause.