Lymph node metastasis is an indicator of the invasiveness and aggressiveness of cancer. It
is a vital prognostic factor in clinical staging of the disease and therapeutic decision-making …

Identification of cancer spread to tumor‐draining lymph nodes offers critical information for
guiding treatment in many cancer types. Current clinical methods of nodal staging are …

Lymph node metastasis is a strong predictor of poor outcome in cancer patients. Animal
studies of lymph node metastasis are constrained by difficulties in the establishment of …

Background Many primary malignancies spread via lymphatic dissemination, and accurate
staging therefore still relies on surgical exploration. The purpose of this study was to explore …

Metastases to local and distant lymph node play a major role in tumor staging, choice of
therapy and in predicting outcome of malignant diseases [1–17]. Several large scale clinical …

The authors define molecular imaging, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and
Molecular Imaging, as the visualization, characterization, and measurement of biological …

With molecular imaging becoming one the fastest growing topics in medical schools, Informa
Healthcare presents Molecular Imaging in Oncology, the first comprehensive reference on …

The accurate identification and characterization of lymph nodes by imaging has important
therapeutic and prognostic significance in patients with newly diagnosed cancers. The …

Lymph nodes are involved in a wide variety of diseases, particularly in cancer. In the latter,
precise nodal staging is essential to guide therapeutic options and to determine prognosis …

In many types of cancer, tumors metastasize through the lymphatic system to draining lymph
nodes. These sentinel lymph nodes have gained increased attention as a prognostic …