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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Has the cancer spread? That's the fear for anyone who is fighting breast cancer. But a new procedure called Spy Phi is helping to answer the question and save lives. "This is the area of the body ...