A woman was sent to me for ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of a thyroid nodule. As is my usual practice prior to the biopsy, I performed detailed ultrasound evaluation for cervical ...

For patients diagnosed with breast cancer, determining whether cancer cells have spread to the axillary lymph nodes of the armpit is important for guiding treatment decisions. It has been debated ...

Intermediate and Longer-Term Outcomes From a Prospective Active-Surveillance Program for Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer Postchemotherapy AUS images were reviewed for 611 patients. One hundred thirty ...

Ultrasound outperformed baseline clinical assessment for detection of lymph node metastasis in patients with high-risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck, a retrospective ...

August 13, 2009 (Toronto, Ontario) — When papillary thyroid cancer returns, it is often in the form of metastases to the neck lymph nodes and is usually treated with surgery. But these patients have ...

Which breast cancer patients need to have underarm lymph nodes removed? New research is narrowing it down: a study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with ...

US researchers are trying to figure out whether laser-induced ultrasound could help locate melanoma in the lymph nodes. Knowing the stage of a patient's melanoma is important when choosing the best ...

Intermediate and Longer-Term Outcomes From a Prospective Active-Surveillance Program for Favorable-Risk Prostate Cancer The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group Z1071 trial reported a 12.6% ...