Swollen lymph nodes in your neck, armpit, head, and other parts of the body often occur when your body is fighting an ...

The lymph nodes are small glands that are part of your immune system. They contain white blood cells and are responsible for ...

Swollen lymph nodes can appear on different parts of the body depending on what the health problem isCredit: Getty 'Deep abdominal lymph nodes', such as those near the pancreas, may be more ...

However, very occasionally, swollen lymph nodes can be a sign of inflammation deeper inside the body, or more rarely, a sign of cancer, but in this case they are usually much larger than a pea.

Intraoperative frozen biopsy and sentinel lymph nodes technique have not shown sufficient accuracy to avoid extended lymphadenectomy, due to the significant rates of skip lymphatic metastasis.

Stage 3 ovarian cancer has spread outside the pelvis into the abdominal cavity or to lymph nodes. Treatment includes surgery and chemotherapy. Stage 3A1 means the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes ...