See a doctor if you have painful, swollen lymph nodes or if they persist for weeks or worsen. You can treat swollen lymph nodes based on their underlying cause, such as antibiotics for bacterial ...

The number of positive lymph nodes can help guide treatment for locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to a recent study. In planning adjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in some patients with ...

Dr David Capehorn debunks some common myths and explains some less well understood facts about cervical lymphadenopathy in ...

It took four months for one woman to receive a life-changing cancer diagnosis after first noticing a swollen lymph node on ...

By traveling through the lymphatic system, lung cancer cells are carried to lymph nodes that act as filters for body wastes, ...

A variety of factors go in to the staging of a head and neck cancer diagnosis, however, the number of malignant lymph nodes may very well be the key to prognosis and treatment moving forward in this ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As more people are getting vaccinated, doctors are seeing an influx of women making mammogram appointments after noticing swollen lymph nodes in the arm region where they got ...

Understanding this often-overlooked symptom could help millions of allergy sufferers recognize when their body is sending important signals about their immune response. When most people think of ...

Cancer treatment routinely involves taking out lymph nodes near the tumor in case they contain metastatic cancer cells. But new findings from a clinical trial show that immunotherapy can activate ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the occult lymph node carcinomatous diffusion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). A total of 1328 lymph nodes from 31 patients treated ...