Swollen lymph nodes are more likely to be benign than malignant. Benign means the lymph ... to infection or illness should return to normal size as you recover. In the meantime, here are a few ...

Lymph Node Size is Related to Tumor Location and Presence ... International Union Against Cancer TNM Classification of Malignant Tumours, 7th edn. Wiley-Blackwell: West-Sussex, 2009, pp 100 ...

1 The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system classically incorporates numerous factors to account for nodal disease, including size, laterality, and number of malignant nodes. Recent ...

Extramedullary hematopoiesis—the presence of hematopoietic activity in sites outside of the bone marrow—can occur in malignant ... of both spleen and lymph node size.

Before 1999, response criteria for malignant lymphomas varied widely among study groups and cancer centers with respect to the size of a normal lymph node, the frequency of assessment and the time ...