July 17, 2012 — A thorough lymph node examination can enhance the detection of unexpected metastatic disease in patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but current practices are suboptimal, ...

Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of ...

November 14, 2007 — The examination of a large number of lymph nodes in colon cancer patients after colectomy does not appear to influence survival rates, researchers report. Even though several ...

As a result, higher hospital lymph node examination rates did not result in greater detection of patients with node-positive tumors or higher rates of adjuvant chemotherapy." "Using lymph node counts ...

Examining a specific number of lymph nodes after colon cancer surgery, a measurement that has been recommended as a quality indicator for hospitals, is not associated with length of patient survival, ...

Women with breast cancer who have breast cancer cells in one or more lymph nodes have poorer outcomes than women without node involvement. Although many oncologists believe that this phenomenon is ...