Most older patients with ER-positive DCIS undergoing mastectomy can avoid axillary surgery, reducing unnecessary procedures. Axillary surgery is overused in patients aged 70 and older, with 93% ...

During the surgery, we only removed the marked lymph node, the MARI node, and examined it for any remaining living tumor cells. "Whenever the MARI node showed there were no residual tumor cells, in ...

With the goals of informing surgical management, improving long-term outcomes and lowering death rates of patients with testicular cancer, a study has found that the conventional, versatile open ...

A joint research team led by Professor Hyun-Woong Cho (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology) and Professor Hyun Koo Kim (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery) at Korea University Guro ...

When it comes to cancer, the general idea is less is more. The fewer tumor and malignant cells that are left behind by treatment, the greater the chances of surviving the disease. Now a groundbreaking ...

A study has shown that lymph node transfer is a viable treatment for the swelling in the affected limb, a condition known as lymphedema, after breast cancer surgery. However, an effective drug to ...

A pair of studies suggest some patients with early-stage breast cancer may be able to safely avoid certain surgeries, adding to ongoing conversations about how aggressively to treat low-risk cancers.

Breakthrough research presented at the 2026 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting shows that additional lymph node evaluation is needed during surgery for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) to ...