The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and 10 other professional societies have issued new appropriate use criteria (AUC) for lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel node mapping and ...

Upfront sentinel lymph node biopsy permitted the avoidance of axillary lymph node dissection in most patients with cN1 ...

Lymphatic mapping, a recent technique first developed for the management of melanoma, is based on the concept that information about the status of the entire lymphatic drainage from a tumor site could ...

Sentinel node mapping in gastric cancer surgery is an intraoperative strategy designed to identify the first-echelon lymph nodes that directly drain a gastric tumour. By using tracer substances and ...

The largest randomized trial of its kind to date found noninferior survival and better arm morbidity among patients with breast cancer who did not undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection.

A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrates that human papillomavirus positivity in cervical cancer is associated with better overall, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival. HPV Types in ...

Effect of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) on overall survival in metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (metMTC). Accurate detection of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with metastatic papillary ...

We read with interest the systematic review and meta-analysis by Alexander H R Varey and colleagues1 assessing the potential ...

The lymph node ratio as prognostic factor in patients with stage III rectal cancer treated with total mesorectal excision and postoperative chemoradiotherapy *Minimum follow up of 12 months for both ...

Omitting completion axillary lymph node dissection does not increase risk for death for patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer, but it does significantly improve arm distress.Data from ...