The last time you visited your doctor for a sore throat, they may have felt for potential inflammation in your neck. That’s because infections often cause swollen lymph nodes (medically known as ...

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 ...

Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumour types. Yet recent research is challenging parts of this long-standing practice. Imagine your body’s immune defences ...

Researchers have unveiled a new approach to treating lymph node metastasis. The process involved administering anticancer drugs directly into the lymph nodes, producing better outcomes and lessening ...

Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

Breast cancer is able to modify the lymphatic vessels through which it travels to the draining lymph nodes. From there, it ...

Research could provide a new approach to treating an aggressive form of breast cancer. A study found that targeting the immune microenvironment in lymph nodes and tumors simultaneously led to ...

Lymph nodes are one of the body's first lines of defense against disease. Immune cells are dispatched from these biological police stations to fight off intruders. But somehow, lymph nodes are also ...

In order to generate immunity against invaders, some immune cells have to get to the lymph nodes. So how do they know how to get there? Researchers have now learned more about how crucial immune ...

“It’s all about location, location, location,” senior study author Eric Lagasse, Pharm.D., Ph.D., stated in a press release. “If hepatocytes get in the right spot and there is a need for liver ...