The Link Between Cancer and Lymph Nodes
Each of us has hundreds of lymph nodes, and each lymph node filters the fluid it receives from lymph vessels that collect or drain lymph fluid from a particular zone in the body. Lymph fluid from the fingers, for instance, joins fluid from the arm and circulates back to the chest.
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What to Do About a Groin Hernia
An inguinal hernia is when a section of the intestine bulges through a weak spot in the inguinal canal. The inguinal canal is a passageway through the abdominal wall near the groin.
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Could Your Stomach Pain be Gallstones? Know the Signs.
Changing your diet to one that is low in saturated fats, sugar, and carbs and high in fiber and calcium to help reduce bile concentration.
Detecting invasive nodules could be key to preventing unnecessary pancreatic cancer surgery
Pancreatic cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form in the pancreas. Some remain benign, while others have the potential to develop into pancreatic cancer. A recent study, which followed 257 patients in Japan for an average of five years, showed that the presence or absence of invasive nodules in pancreatic cysts is key to assessing whether these cysts are benign or cancerous.
Key to the high aggressiveness of pancreatic cancer identified
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates—only 10% after five years. One of the factors contributing to its aggressiveness is its tumor microenvironment, known as the stroma, which makes up the majority of the tumor mass and consists of a network of proteins and different non-tumor cells.