1Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Lymph nodes filter the lymph fluid as it passes through them. They can trap bacteria, viruses and cancer cells. Lymph nodes are also called lymph glands. We have lymph nodes almost everywhere in our ...

With treatment, the life expectancy for someone with lung cancer that has spread to the liver is only about three months. This may be because people with liver metastasis tend to respond poorly to ...

Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) have now provided new data by discovering that a high-fat diet activates mechanisms that facilitate metastasis. This is a study ...

After treatment for a surgery for a head and neck cancer, it is important to contact your specialist ... and give you advice on how they can be managed. Surgery to remove lymph nodes in the neck (neck ...

Given the presence of multiple lymph node metastases in the neck ... A fine-needle biopsy of the left axillary lymph node in May 2023 showed poorly differentiated carcinoma infiltration.

A multicenter study led from Finland has shown that lymph node transfer is a viable treatment for the swelling in the affected limb, a condition known as lymphedema, after breast cancer surgery.

Several variables have been studied, including pathologic extent of the primary tumor (pT stage), tumor thickness, growth pattern, histological grade, percentage of poorly differentiated cancer ...

Abstract: The difficulty in identifying lymph node malignancies, including lymphoma and metastatic tumors, pose a diagnostic challenge at their primary sites. Given the heterogeneity of lymph node ...

The endocrine and sarcoma surgery section at Karolinska treats over a thousand patients with sarcoma and tumors and/or functional disorders in endocrine organs every year, in a multidisciplinary ...