NEW ORLEANS — January 31, 2026 — Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for ...

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IN the 1908 Christian Herter Lectures at Bellevue Hospital, Starling 1 emphasized the important influence of changes in hepatic interstitial-fluid formation on flow and composition of thoracic-duct ...

NEW ORLEANS -- More extensive N1 lymph node assessment may better guide therapy after non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) resections with curative intent, real-world data suggested. The more N1 ...

The medical term for cancer that has spread is "metastasis." Knowing whether lung cancer is in lymph nodes, and which lymph nodes it has spread to, helps doctors assign the cancer a stage and ...

If you’ve ever felt swelling on the side of your neck, you probably had swollen glands, also known as swollen lymph nodes. Doctors call it lymphadenopathy. Swollen lymph nodes are a sign that your ...

Lymph node metastasis occurs in "metastatic" lymph nodes, lymph nodes that contain cancer cells that have spread from elsewhere in the body. A part of the immune system, lymph nodes are tiny ...