Cancer researchers have a multitude of tools to study tumors. Histological staining uses dyes to make different kinds of ...

Globally, women are roughly twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with thyroid cancer. However, recent research shows that ...

A 56-year-old American man was diagnosed with stage 4 head and neck cancer after noticing a weird, painless boil on his ...

but there is near consensus against performing prophylactic lateral neck dissection in PTC patients. The pattern of lymph node involvement in PTC has been evaluated in various studies, and levels II, ...

When a person has an infection, they may notice swollen lymph nodes in part of the body near the infection site, such as their neck, armpit, jaw, or groin. Cancer that develops in or spreads to ...

There are different levels of neck dissection. The most common are levels 1 to 5. For each, your surgeon makes a cut (incision) in the neck and removes some or all of the lymph nodes. This may be on ...

Lymph nodes in the head and neck are grouped into 7 regions, or levels, on the basis of anatomic landmarks. In patients undergoing standard lymphoscintigraphy, obtaining lateral marker images that ...

However, not all swollen lymph nodes are painful or readily noticed. If an infection is relatively mild or localized, you might only find the swollen lump by accident when showering. The same is true ...

The following is a summary of “Lymph node level ratio as a predictor of survival in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma,” published in the November 2023 issue of Oncology by Dermody, et al. For a ...

radiotherapy to the neck area A negative result means there are no cancer cells in the sentinel nodes. This means it is unlikely the cancer has spread to the other lymph nodes. There are different ...

The International Ice Hockey Federation is mandating neck protection at all levels of IIHF competitions, it said in a statement Monday. The equipment mandated, neck laceration protectors ...