The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and 10 other professional societies have issued new appropriate use criteria (AUC) for lymphoscintigraphy in sentinel node mapping and ...

DUBLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE American: NAVB) (“Navidea” or the “Company”), a company focused on the development of precision immunodiagnostic agents and ...

Lymphatic mapping, a recent technique first developed for the management of melanoma, is based on the concept that information about the status of the entire lymphatic drainage from a tumor site could ...

Natural History of Paclitaxel-Associated Acute Pain Syndrome: Prospective Cohort Study NCCTG N08C1 Published literature in all languages between 1990 and 2009 was critically appraised. Primary ...

The Mayo Lung Cohort: A Regression Analysis Focusing on Lung Cancer Incidence and Mortality PURPOSE: Lymph node metastases are the most significant prognostic factor in localized non–small-cell lung ...

Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has become an indispensable procedure for staging various malignancies by identifying the first draining lymph node from a primary tumour. Traditional approaches have ...

Trials evaluating the omission of completion axillary-lymph-node dissection in patients with clinically node-negative breast cancer and sentinel-lymph-node metastases have been compromised by limited ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis demonstrates that human papillomavirus positivity in cervical cancer is associated with better overall, cancer-specific, and disease-free survival. HPV Types in ...

US regulators have approved a new radioactive diagnostic imaging agent manufactured by Navidea Biopharmaceuticals that is intended to assist in the location of lymph nodes in patients with breast ...

The detection and analysis of sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) have transformed axillary staging in breast cancer. By identifying the first draining lymph node, clinicians can determine nodal involvement ...

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 ...