PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of sentinel node identification in patients with invasive cervix cancer undergoing radical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy ...

Phase Ib Study of Panobinostat and Bortezomib in Relapsed or Relapsed and Refractory Multiple Myeloma Patients with previously untreated cT1 or cT2 gastric adenocarcinomas < 4 cm in gross diameter ...

Experts in endometrial cancer suggest there should be a change in the standard of care, after the largest study to date found that sentinel lymph node biopsy is as accurate for identifying metastasis ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sentinel node is the first lymph node that filters lymphatic fluid from the tissue surrounding a tumor. As the first node in the lymph circulatory system “downstream” from the tumor, this is more ...

Dr. Eva Singletary answers the question: 'What Effect Does Blue Dye Have?' &#151; -- Question: What type of reactions are possible from the blue dye used in sentinel lymph node biopsy? Answer: The ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – Patients who develop melanoma on their face, head or neck can have the same early-diagnosis surgical procedure to see if their cancer might spread as patients whose cancer is on less ...

New Orleans, LA – Eugene A. Woltering, MD, FACS, The James D. Rives Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Sections of Surgical Oncology & Endocrine Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, ...