#lymph nodes

Former White House press secretary and Arkansas governor hopeful Sarah Huckabee Sanders had her thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes removed.

“This is a very treatable cancer,” says Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda, who will start chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

A new study in mice suggests that it is an important step for cancer metastasis, and details how that happens.

An Army veteran, retired firefighter and farmer, Jeff Meckstroth, 65, lives in Ohio. He has Stage IV metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer.

People with prostate cancer who received hormone therapy plus pelvic lymph node treatment experienced an average five-year survival of 87%.

Other research groups have also found intriguing connections between cancer that has spread to the brain and neurodegenerative disorders.

We talked at length about quality of life and life expectancy.

Recently, we got an early Christmas present when we met with my oncologist. All of the news is good!

Rates of oropharyngeal cancer, largely preventable by the HPV vaccine, are rising, especially in the Midwest and Southeast.

A new FDA-approved imaging technique for prostate cancer locates cancer lesions in the pelvic area to which the tumors have migrated.

It looks like we dodged another bullet. The fun never stops, does it?

Things have evolved pretty quickly. First, the non-existent pain in my cancerous rib went from zero to 60 in the middle of a game of golf.

I have been incredibly fortunate to be on a medication for six years and nine months with no growth until recently.

If we had listened to my general oncologist, we would have abandoned ship. But now we’re doing the happy dance!

It’s been quite some time since I posted anything. Frankly, this somewhat troubled me. But recently a couple of thoughts came to mind.

I hoped the first sign of “growth” in one of my tumors was a measurement error, but the PET scan told me that I’m not fooling anyone.