Objective: To determine the prognostic relevance of non‐regional lymph node (NRLN) metastases presenting synchronously with bone metastases in metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) for guiding treatment decisions based on oligometastatic definitions. Patients and Methods: Patients diagnosed with mPC...
Introduction The management of the regional lymph nodes in penile cancer patients, particularly when these lymph nodes are impalpable, remains controversial. Prophylactic bilateral inguinal lymphadenectomy is associated with high morbidity and is often unnecessary. However, there is no non-invasive or minim...
We know that lymphangiogenesis is often accompanied by sentinel LNM [128]. While distant metastasis may also be derived from LN metastasis, or immunological tolerance induced by LN colonization. Lymphangiogenic metastatic sites exist in distant LNs or organs. It is extrapolated that the induction of ...
The median number of lymph nodes dissected was 13, which was higher than that in the retrospective cohort (Table 1). As in the retrospective cohort, urine samples were collected without DRE, and the same diagnostic algorithm and cutoff value were used with the quantities of the 25 genes in ...
The invasion status of tumour-draining lymph nodes (LNs) is a critical indicator of cancer stage and is important for treatment planning. Clinicians currently use planar scintigraphy and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with 99mTc-radio
FDG-PET in the Locoregional Lymph Node Staging of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer - do anatometabolic PET-CT fusion images improve the localisation of regional ... FDG-PET scan in potentially operable non-small cell lung cancer: do anatometabolic PET-CT fusion images improve the localisation of ...
Only primary tumor and involved lymph nodes were permitted to be included in the treatment volume. This gross tumor volume was expanded to include respiratory tumor motion during simulation (internal target volume). The internal target volume was then expanded by an additional 0.5 to 1 cm, ...
Target volume and OAR delineation We have previously reported the approaches for target volume and OAR contouring in EC patients.14 Briefly, the GTV consisted of the primary tumor (GTVP) and the positive regional lymph nodes (GTVLN). The contouring of GTV was identified using CT images, ...
which included samples from 515 lung adenocarcinoma patients and 502 lung squamous cell carcinoma patients. All images were included for image processing and analysis. All tumour samples were gathered by surgical excision. Lymph nodes were assessed by pathology evaluation. R-status and adjuvant/neoadjuva...
First, we assumed that the loco-regional recurrences in the bronchial stump, hilar or mediastinal lymph nodes and the chest wall most often occur stochastically, as a result of incomplete tumour removal at submicroscopic level. Therefore, all cases with isolated loco-regional recurrences of NSCLC ...