tonsils, and adenoids, help you fight off illness and infections. They also filter germs, cancer cells, and wastes out of your lymphatic fluid. You have between 600 and 800 lymph nodes spread ...

Most lumps in your neck occur due to enlarged lymph nodes (small, round organs that are part of your immune system). Your ...

James Heilman, MD/Wikimedia Commons Tonsillitis is a viral or bacterial infection of the tonsil’s lymph nodes. It can occur at any age, but it most often affects children from preschool age to ...

Tonsil stones are small, hard formations that can develop in your tonsils, which are the lymph nodes at the back of your throat. Tonsil stones are also called tonsilloliths. Tonsil stones ...

Usually, tonsil stones fall away and get swallowed, but sometimes they need to be manually removed. Diseases of the lymphatic system are usually diagnosed when lymph nodes are enlarged ...

such as tonsil stones or an infection that may cause enlarged lymph nodes and mimic cancer symptoms. Can You Get Tonsil ...

Tonsil regrowth is estimated to happen up to 6% of the time following a partial removal. © PhotoAlto/Ale Ventura via Getty Here’s a horror story for anyone who had ...

Advanced tonsil cancer means it has spread to other parts of the body. You might have: chemoradiotherapy to your throat and neck surgery to remove the part of the throat affected by cancer and some of ...

Lymph nodes are round, bean-shaped glands ... Along with your spleen, tonsils, and adenoids, they help protect you from harmful germs. The job of a lymph node is to filter out what's in your ...

Swollen lymph nodes in the neck may be due to a viral or bacterial throat infection, such as strep throat. Strep throat is a bacterial infection that develops in the throat and tonsils due to ...

may also spread to the nearest lymph nodes. Tonsilitis is where the tonsils become infected, inflamed and swollen. The tonsils normally protect the entrance of the gastrointestinal tract and the ...