New research shows lymph nodes aren’t just cancer bystanders, they’re the command centers fueling immune attacks. Surgically removing them along with tumors may weaken treatment, while preserving them ...

In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the "conductors" of the immune system, causing lymph nodes structure to collapse. A team led by Simon Haas describes in "Nature Cancer" this ...

Cancer that starts in the lymph nodes is lymphoma. Cancer may also spread from other areas of the body to various lymph nodes, including the neck. Swollen lymph nodes are usually due to a cause other ...

This illustration depicts a newly identified pathway, an intranodal lympho-venous shunt, within a lymph node that enables lymph fluid to flow directly into a blood vessel. Typically, lymph nodes serve ...

In almost all solid tumors - i.e. cancers with a solid tissue structure - the detection of tumor cells in the lymph nodes is considered a decisive marker for the progression of the disease. Lymph node ...

Lymph nodes are key control centers in the immune system and play an important role in defending the body against infections and tumors. For these processes to function properly, immune cells (B cells ...

Impact of radiation and surgery for intraductal papillary neoplasm of the bile duct: A population-based analysis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The lymphatic system has long been considered mysterious. But the lymphatic system – and the lymph nodes within it – plays fascinating and important roles in health and disease, from fighting off ...