A green fluorescent dye beat the standard blue dye for mapping lymph nodes when the two were compared directly in women with uterine or cervical cancers. The finding comes from a phase 3 ...

Impact of adjuvant chemotherapy on outcomes after curative-intent surgery for biliary tract cancer: A 10-year retrospective single-center study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO ...

Publication details Sohyeon Jeong et al, Detection of metastatic lymph node and sentinel lymph node mapping using mannose receptor targeting in in vivo mouse and rabbit uterine cancer models, ...

The sentinel lymph node (SLN) is the lymph node that represents the 'gate-keeper' of the lymphatic basin; it is the first node to receive lymphatic drainage from the site of the primary tumor. SLN ...

US regulators have approved a new radioactive diagnostic imaging agent manufactured by Navidea Biopharmaceuticals that is intended to assist in the location of lymph nodes in patients with breast ...

Outcomes after complete pathologic response (pCR) to neoadjuvant treatment for gastric and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma. Background: Some papers have reported that sentinel lymph ...

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and 10 other professional societies have issued new appropriate use criteria (AUC) for lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel node mapping and ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrates that human papillomavirus positivity in cervical cancer is associated with better overall, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival. HPV Types in ...

Researchers at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and Düsseldorf University Hospital (UKD) have succeeded for the first time in mapping the organization of immune cells in human lymph nodes.

Lymph node metastasis occurs in "metastatic" lymph nodes, lymph nodes that contain cancer cells that have spread from elsewhere in the body. A part of the immune system, lymph nodes are tiny ...