Cancer treatment routinely involves taking out lymph nodes near the tumor in case they contain metastatic cancer cells. But new findings from a clinical trial show that immunotherapy can activate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sparing lymph nodes until after immunotherapy treatment may result in improved antitumor immune response among ...

August 13, 2009 (Toronto, Ontario) — When papillary thyroid cancer returns, it is often in the form of metastases to the neck lymph nodes and is usually treated with surgery. But these patients have ...

IT’S something we all do lots of this time of year – dismiss symptoms as ‘nothing to worry about’ or just a ‘bug’. But when ...

Characterizing chromosome 3p/q genes as biomarkers of treatment response in squamous cell carcinoma of the lung and head and neck. Efficacy and safety of nab ...

Laryngeal cancer may spread to cartilage, soft tissues, or lymph nodes in the neck area and to more distant sites, such as the lungs, liver, or bones. Treatment may depend on how far it has spread.

Artificial intelligence can augment current methods to predict the risk that head and neck cancer will spread outside the borders of neck lymph nodes, according to researchers with the ECOG-ACRIN ...

For years, it has been a mainstay of treatment to stop the spread of many cancers. But is the removal of lymph nodes – tiny, bean-shaped nodules that filter waste and bacteria – really the best way to ...

The signs that thyroid cancer has spread can vary depending on where in the body it has traveled to. Thyroid cancers often spread to the nearby lymph nodes and the lungs, bone, brain, and liver. For ...