CHICAGO — The use of acupuncture after neck dissection in patients with head and neck cancer reduced the effects of pain, dysfunction and xerostomia compared with the usual care, according to data ...

Recently, a large randomized trial found a survival advantage among patients who received elective neck dissection in conjunction with primary surgery for clinically node-negative oral cavity cancer ...

CHICAGO – The prophylactic removal of lymph nodes during primary surgery improves survival and reduces the rate of recurrence in early-stage oral cancer compared with dissection at the time of nodal ...

The radioactive tracer technetium 99m Tc-tilmanocept (Lymphoseek, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals) is poised to become a viable alternative to elective neck dissection, the current gold standard for ...

Whether patients with early-stage oral cancers should be treated with elective neck dissection at the time of the primary surgery or with therapeutic neck dissection after nodal relapse has been a ...

A neck dissection is surgery to remove all or some of the lymph nodes and surrounding tissue from the neck. Lymph nodes are small, round or bean-shaped glands. They remove germs from your body, help ...

The first robot-assisted radical neck dissection in the United States using the bilateral axillo-breast approach (BABA) has been performed successfully by a team of surgeons at Mount Sinai Beth Israel ...

You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your neck. This is usually if there is a chance that the cancer might have spread there. The lymph nodes are part of the lymphatic system. Cancer cells ...