The largest randomized trial of its kind to date found noninferior survival and better arm morbidity among patients with breast cancer who did not undergo completion axillary lymph node dissection.

Credit: Getty Images Nevertheless, thorough extended pelvic lymph node dissection cannot be omitted, investigators cautioned. Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-guided radical prostatectomy (RP ...

Oncologic and complication rates generally favored the minimally invasive approach to inguinal lymph node dissection in penile cancer surgery. Minimally invasive approaches to inguinal lymph node ...

Applies to most patients with one or two positive sentinel lymph nodes ...

Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...

A phase II study of weekly carboplatin and nab-paclitaxel with trastuzumab or bevacizumab as neoadjuvant therapy for patients with early-stage nonmetastatic breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting ...

In this JCO Article Insights episode, Dr. Joseph Matthew interviews authors Dr. Yang Zhang and Dr. Haiquan Chen about their recently published JCO article, "Phase III Study of Mediastinal Lymph Node ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

In a trial, selected patients with early non-small cell lung cancer did not benefit from mediastinal lymph node dissection (LND). Mediastinal LND resulted in longer surgeries, increased bleeding, and ...

Sentinel lymph node (SLN) resection has been advocated as an option to reduce morbidity for women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. When the sentinel node is negative for breast cancer, SLN ...

Gastric cancer remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide, and surgical resection with lymphadenectomy is the only potentially curative option. Lymphadenectomy—the systematic ...