A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

Cancer that starts in the lymph nodes is lymphoma. Cancer may also spread from other areas of the body to various lymph nodes, including the neck. Swollen lymph nodes are usually due to a cause other ...

Recently, a large randomized trial found a survival advantage among patients who received elective neck dissection in conjunction with primary surgery for clinically node-negative oral cavity cancer ...

The discovery that the identification and biopsy of the first lymph node to which a cancer spreads (the sentinel node) can lead to more accurate diagnosis and treatment has revolutionised the ...

Which patients is this strategy targeting? The inclusion was limited to stage I patients, presentations no longer considered locally advanced. Matted nodes were excluded explicitly, and the high ...

June 3, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois) — Acupuncture could be a viable option for reducing pain and dysfunction after neck dissection in head and neck cancer patients, new data suggest. The results of a ...