Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumor types. Yet recent research is challenging ...

Lymph node metastasis occurs in "metastatic" lymph nodes, lymph nodes that have been infected by cancer from elsewhere in the body. A part of the immune system, lymph nodes are tiny ovals placed ...

A new study shows that counting cancerous lymph nodes could be a reliable outcome predictor for cancer patients. Patients newly diagnosed with cancer typically focus on one question, eclipsing all ...

For decades, physicians have known that many kinds of cancer cells often spread first to lymph nodes before traveling to distant organs through the bloodstream. New research provides insight into why ...

Prophylactic Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor and Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Decrease Febrile Neutropenia After Chemotherapy in Children With Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of ...

Cancer can begin anywhere in the body when harmful cells multiply out of control and crowd out normal, healthy cells. Cancer cells can travel through the lymph system after breaking away from the ...

In almost all solid tumors—i.e. cancers with a solid tissue structure—the detection of tumor cells in the lymph nodes is ...

“It’s all about location, location, location,” senior study author Eric Lagasse, Pharm.D., Ph.D., stated in a press release. “If hepatocytes get in the right spot and there is a need for liver ...