The lymphatic system is the body's primary defence against infection and spread of malignant cells. It consists of the spleen, tonsils, thymus, lympnode, lymph vessels and the lightly yellow fluid ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is used for the cytologic evaluation of lymphoid tissue from patients with (unknown) lymphadenopathy; however, because only a limited ...

A lymph node biopsy is when a doctor checks and removes a small piece of tissue or sample of cells from one of your lymph nodes. The doctor sends this to the laboratory and a specialist doctor called ...

From a total of 142 studies, six studies remained after reviewing published documents. All six had some evidence of bias, including a lack of initial randomization. The "gold standard" for determining ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of ultrasound (US)-guided core biopsy of axillary nodes in patients with operable breast cancer. The ipsilateral axillae of 187 patients with suspected ...

In the management of patients with esophageal cancer, distant metastases should be excluded with positron emission tomography (PET) scan or computed tomography (CT) scan before EUS is considered. In ...

Early-stage gastric cancer can be assessed more accurately using a new liquid biopsy tool that predicts lymph node metastasis ...

Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy is performed using a small needle to obtain samples of tissue and fluid from solid or cystic breast lesions. FNA is indicated for patients with a mammographic ...

Prevalence and Causes of Fatigue After Cancer Treatment: The Next Generation of Research Third, it is important to remember that the safety and accuracy of invasive staging procedures is related to ...

"In our study, we showed that fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy material can be a good source for next-generation sequencing (NGS) for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Based on these ...