Illustrations of human lymph nodes (computer modelling)
Whether the lymph nodes contain cancer cells is an important factor when staging melanoma cancer, determining treatment, and predicting survival. Though melanoma has the potential to spread to other regions of the body first, it most commonly spreads first to the sentinel lymph nodes.
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