SAN ANTONIO -- Thoracic surgeons were fired up about minimum expectations for surgical lymph node assessment in conjunction with lung cancer resection during a debate at the Society of Thoracic ...

Final results of a multi-center, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled phase II study to assess the efficacy of MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic as adjuvant therapy in stage IB/II non-small cell lung ...

Nivolumab and Ipilimumab for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer With an Immunogenic Signature: The Multicenter, Two-Cohort, Phase II NEPTUNES Study We conducted a multicenter, open-label, ...

Three-fourths of patients had cancer-free mediastinal lymph nodes, clear surgical margins ...

Nodular sclerosis disease often involves mediastinal nodes and shows fibrous bands partitioning lymphoid tissue into nodules around Reed–Sternberg cells. Definitive workup requires excisional lymph ...

A prospective study found that adding durvalumab to platinum-based chemotherapy more than doubled mediastinal lymph node clearance rates in stage III non-small cell lung cancer with N2 involvement.

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 ...

Mediastinal lymphadenopathy is the medical term for swollen lymph nodes in the chest. They are too deep to feel, so imaging scans usually reveal them. Swollen chest lymph nodes can signal lung cancer, ...

New findings of an Alliance Foundation Trials study show combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy before surgery improves outcomes for some patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, ...

The mediastinum is the central area of the chest between the two lungs, which contains the heart, major blood vessels, thymus ...