You might have surgery to remove lymph nodes in your tummy (abdomen). These are called the retroperitoneal lymph nodes. This operation is called a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. This is a ...

During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of lymph nodes to inspect for cancer cells. It can be hard to choose between a lumpectomy or ...

You normally have some other tests and scans to help with this. an area between the melanoma and the nearby lymph nodes the lymph nodes close to where the melanoma started Cancer cells found between ...