Total mesorectal excision (TME) is a specific surgical technique used in the treatment of rectal cancer in which the bowel with the tumor is entirely removed along with surrounding fat and lymph nodes ...

In 2006, researchers from the Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MLST-1) evaluated whether wide local excision of the primary tumor combined with SLNB, followed by completion lymph-node ...

Your doctor removes the first lymph node or nodes that the melanoma could have spread to. You have a sentinel lymph node biopsy at the same time as a wide local excision. If you don’t have an SLNB, ...

You usually have this test at the same time as a wide local excision. If your doctor can feel that the lymph nodes near the melanoma are swollen (enlarged), you usually have an ultrasound scan instead ...

Researchers noted that the safety and effectiveness of standard therapies for Merkel cell carcinoma “remains poorly studied.” ...