Advances in cancer treatment mean more people are living longer after a cancer diagnosis. But some survivors develop lymphedema—long-term swelling in the arms, hands, legs or feet that can cause pain, ...

Participation in a national quality improvement (QI) initiative increased hospital-level compliance with lymph node sampling during lung cancer surgery, according to findings published in JAMA Surgery ...

Background and Objective In penile cancer, guideline-concordant invasive nodal staging in clinically node-negative (cN0) patients must balance diagnostic value against perioperative harm. We ...

A Bitcoin node is a computer that runs the Bitcoin software and participates in the Bitcoin network. Nodes are essential for the functioning of Bitcoin, as they validate transactions, maintain the ...

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...

Description of case: The plaintiff was an intensivist working in an ICU, who underwent resection of an enlarged lymph node from his left chest. The defendant was the cardiothoracic surgeon who removed ...

Stage 2 melanoma involves a significant tumor without lymph node or distant organ spread, determined by tumor thickness and ulceration. Treatment focuses on curative surgical excision, with adjuvant ...

"As always, we encourage you to communicate among all team members and pay attention to your documentation," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter. My physician performed an open radical ...

A phase 1/2 study of vusolimogene oderparepvec (RP1) in primary melanoma (mel) to reduce the risk of sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual ...

For years, the default definitive treatment for patients with early-stage I non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been surgical resection, typically minimally invasive lobectomy with systematic lymph ...

"Understanding the rates of false-positives and false-negatives in lymph node assessment allows for better-informed surgical decision-making. This contributes to determining the extent of LN ...