Among the range of uncomfortable symptoms, swollen lymph nodes tend to spark feelings of dread. They can become quite large, feel tender to the touch, and signal a wide variety of illnesses, from ...

Smaller lymph nodes commonly seen on abdominal CT scans in "healthy" people are not clinically significant and require no further imaging, a new study confirms. The study was performed because there ...

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Observational study finds more pathologic nodal upstaging with more nodes sampled ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Susan Vander Ploeg was a professional graphic artist early in her career. These days, painting is a good form of stress relief. "I had been post-menopausal for about seven years and ...

WASHINGTON — Breast cancer treatment left Susan Wolfe-Tank with an arm too painfully swollen to lift anything heavy or even fit into her usual clothing — a debilitating condition that gets little ...

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The rising incidence of cancer worldwide has led to an increasing number of surgeries that involve the removal of lymph nodes ...

New Data Show Therapies May Activate Lymph Nodes to Produce Tumor-Tackling T Cells Cancer treatment routinely involves taking out lymph nodes near the tumor in case they contain metastatic cancer ...