Litvak is president of the nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Optimization and an adjunct professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Imagine seeing a patient who drinks excessively, ...
A 74-year-old man presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of severe chest and back pain. He has a history of hypertension and has run out of medication. He has no history of similar ...
In this JCO Article Insights episode, Dr. Joseph Matthew interviews authors Dr. Yang Zhang and Dr. Haiquan Chen about their recently published JCO article, "Phase III Study of Mediastinal Lymph Node ...
According to a new analysis, PLND does not impact recurrence-free survival but may reduce metastatic spread in intermediate- and high-risk prostate cancer. The benefit of PLND is most evident in ...
Lymph nodes are small, bean-shaped structures that are part of the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system helps the body fight infection and filter harmful substances. Lymph nodes are present ...
Study coordinators who want to add a study should Submit a Clinical Trial. For more information or to remove a study, please email pa-webteam@bcm.edu. MyChart is a ...
Results from the PHENIX-I trial support skipping pelvic lymphadenectomy in women with early cervical cancer who have a negative sentinel lymph node biopsy. Omitting pelvic lymphadenectomy in these ...
SAN ANTONIO -- Patients with early breast cancer who skipped axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) lived just as long as those who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), the randomized INSEMA ...
Skipping standard axillary lymph node dissection led to very low rates of axillary recurrence in patients with node-positive breast cancer who became node-negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ...