Sentences with phrase «reached nearby lymph»
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.
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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.