Sentences with phrase «nearby lymph nodes»

But this technique doesn't provide detailed information about the disease extent within the bowel's wall or possible disease in nearby lymph nodes.

Surgeons can remove the initial tumor, radiation therapy is effective in treating disease that has reached nearby lymph nodes, and chemotherapy can decrease the risk of distant metastases.

After the cystectomy, the surgeon will close the hole in your bladder wall and then remove nearby lymph nodes.

Your veterinarian may also choose to perform a needle aspiration of nearby lymph nodes or to surgically remove one or more lymph nodes to determine if the melanoma has metastasized.

Following infection, Langerhans cells not only serve as reservoirs for replicating virus, but also transport the virus to nearby lymph nodes where HIV spreads to other immune cells.

Broadly speaking, stage 2 cancers may have penetrated the walls of the surrounding muscle tissue and infiltrated a small number of very nearby lymph nodes, but they haven't reached more distant lymph nodes or other areas of the body.

I had a prostatectomy, but, despite the entire removal of the gland, there were small amounts of metastatic disease detected in nearby lymph nodes.

Sometimes your veterinarian will remove nearby lymph nodes to see whether they have been infiltrated with cancer cells.

Upon entering lymphatic vessels, they migrate to nearby lymph nodes, which then swell up, and from there, to other organs via the blood.

The first study will examine these patients over time, in order to analyze other important variables such as melanoma relapse, mortality, resistance to treatment, development of a second melanoma or other cancers, and metastasis, including spread of the cancer to nearby lymph nodes (sentinel nodes).

It may also spread, through the stomach wall, to nearby lymph nodes and organs such as the liver, pancreas, and the lungs, or to distant organs such as the lymph nodes above the collar bone, the colon, and the ovaries.

«This technique could eventually be used to accurately determine whether a newly detected cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes, which should help a surgeon deal with the full extent of disease during a single surgery,» said Shridar Ganesan, associate director for Translational Science at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and clinical advisor for the project.

Current guidelines for treating early - stage breast cancer — cancer that has not spread to nearby lymph nodes or other parts of the body — result in thousands of women receiving chemotherapy without benefitting from it.

The five - year local - regional failure rate was 38 percent, of which seven patients experienced a spread of the cancer to nearby lymph nodes or organs (range, 2.8 to 5.2 years after SBRT).

The affected malignant tumors and any nearby lymph nodes will be removed, to reduce the risk of the cancer spreading.

This tumor tends to be larger than those found in Stage 1 and will have either spread to nearby lymph nodes or other tissues nearby like the chest wall, diaphragm, pleura (membranes that surround the lungs), bronchus or heart tissue.

If melanoma — the deadliest form — is found before it has spread to nearby lymph nodes, the survival rate is about 98 percent.

The stage is usually determined in part by whether or not cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes and how many of those nodes are affected.

For example, a person with stage 1 colorectal cancer may be assigned a grade of T1, N0, M0, meaning that the tumor may have grown into one of the muscle layers in the gastrointestinal tract but hasn't spread to nearby lymph nodes or other, more distant areas of the body.

This stage has two categories, 2A and 2B, based on how large the tumor is and whether or not it has spread to nearby lymph nodes.

At Stage 2, breast cancer is growing but is only in the breast or nearby lymph nodes.

The surgery can be «open» — meaning, the doctor will make a large cut to remove the tumor, surrounding healthy tissue, and nearby lymph nodes all at once — or «minimally invasive,» in which a surgeon can use special tools to remove the growths by making a few smaller cuts.

This stage also has two categories, 1A and 1B, based on whether there is any evidence of small clusters of breast cancer cells in nearby lymph nodes.

In women with stage 3 breast cancer, for example, the cancer might have invaded the chest wall and reached the nearby lymph nodes, but it hasn't spread to other areas of the body, like the brain or bones.

The warning signs of breast cancer are usually visual which can include lumps found within the breast and nearby lymph nodes.

The procedure involves removal of the section of the cancer - affected colon, nearby lymph nodes, and areas of cancer spread.

If your bladder cancer has spread to a larger area on the muscle layer of your bladder wall or to more than one area on your bladder, you may need a radical cystectomy to remove your entire bladder and nearby lymph nodes.

At diagnosis, inflammatory breast cancer is either stage III or IV disease, depending on whether cancer cells have spread only to nearby lymph nodes or to other tissues as well.

The presence of invasive cancer in the affected breast and the spread of cancer to nearby lymph nodes are associated with reduced survival.

Malignant lymphocytes travel through the lymph vessels to nearby lymph nodes.

Purpose of Study: Mast cell tumors are a very common skin tumor in dogs, and a common mechanism of spread in the body (metastasis) is to nearby lymph nodes.

Clinical Signs Early in the course of infection, the virus is carried to nearby lymph nodes, where it reproduces in white blood cells known as T - lymphocytes.

Advanced cases spread to nearby lymph nodes, lungs and the brain.

Malignant lymphocytes then travel through the lymphatic system to nearby lymph nodes.

Following the primary infection, the feline immunodeficiency virus spreads to nearby lymph nodes and in time to all the lymph nodes.

A dogs prognosis (expected life expectancy is based on the nature of the tumor including the tumor size, whether the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes and other areas of the body (metastasis), how deep the tumor is into the tissue and the presence of estrogen receptors (estrogen receptors in cells can change cell behavior).

Following primary infection, the virus spreads to nearby lymph nodes and over time to all the lymph nodes.

I had a prostatectomy, but, despite the entire removal of the gland, there were small amounts of metastatic disease detected in nearby lymph nodes.