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Lymph node examination should be expanded to accurately assess cancer spread in patients with lung cancer

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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Targeted lymph node examination improves staging of colon cancer

Examining more carefully the lymph nodes to which colorectal cancer is most likely to have spread may improve the accuracy of colon cancer staging and spare some patients the cost and toxicity of ...
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Multi-institutional evaluation of sentinel lymph node (SLN) examination by one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) assay in breast cancer: Performance of metastases ...

Incidence of brain metastases as a first site of recurrence among women with triple receptor-negative breast cancer. A multicenter randomized phase III trial of nonpegylated liposome-encapsulated ...
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Lymph node collection kit improves outcomes of lung cancer resection

CHICAGO — The use of a lymph node specimen collection kit during non-small cell lung cancer resection significantly improved staging quality and OS, according to data presented at ASCO. The American ...
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Mediastinal lymph node examination and survival in resected early-stage non-small cell lung cancer in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database.

Phase II trial: Concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy with nitroglycerin in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 ASCO Annual Meeting ...