Dr Ray said these 105 patients with advanced ovarian cancer had undergone pelvic and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Various studies demonstrated that chemotherapy does not sterilise the ...

Prospective nonrandomized evidence demonstrated a survival benefit for extended pelvic lymph node dissection. Improvement on staging has also been suggested by the presence of skip metastatic ...

Surgical oncology is the branch of medicine that focuses on the use of surgery to treat patients with cancer. Results from the SWOG S1011 and LEA trials show that extended pelvic lymph node ...

Results from the SWOG S1011 and LEA trials show that extended pelvic lymph node dissection during radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive bladder cancer offers no survival benefit. Novel ...

To our knowledge this is the largest study directly comparing L-PCLND with O-PCLND patients. In concordance with previous studies we demonstrated that L-PCLND to represents a safe and reasonable ...

The role of extended pelvic lymph-node dissection (ePLND) in prostate cancer has been revisited in light of evidence from studies on staging via prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission ...

A pelvic examination is when a doctor or a specialist nurse examines your pelvis. You may also hear this test called an internal or vaginal examination. Your pelvis is the area between your hip bones.

Purpose: Radical cystectomy (RC) is the standard of care for patients with bladder cancer, and pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) is a pivotal step that can be carried out either before or after RC.

To evaluate oncologic and perioperative outcomes of extended pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) during robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) based on the location of lymph node positivity (LN+).