Saving lymph nodes
Filed under Audio on Wednesday, October 19, 2005.
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Doctors diagnose head and neck cancer in more than 40,000 Americans each year. But some patients may be going under the knife unnecessarily - their lymph nodes are often healthy. Now University of Florida experts have developed a way to assess early CT scans to predict whether lymph nodes in the neck are cancer-free and can be spared from surgery.