Her surgeon, John R. Sims, said in a statement that Huckabee Sanders "is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck.

Routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck of patients with thyroid cancer may help prevent the disease from recurring, according to a new study (Surgery, December 2011, Vol. 150:6, pp. 1048-1057).

For many head and neck cancers — including cancer of the thyroid, salivary gland, and mouth — a surgeon will remove the cancerous tumor as well as surrounding tissues and lymph nodes if ...

They chose to design a trial for patients with head and neck cancers because of the high number of lymph nodes in those areas. The trial enrolled 12 patients whose tumors hadn't yet metastasized ...

They chose to design a trial for patients with head and neck cancers because of the high number of lymph nodes in those areas. The trial enrolled 12 patients whose tumors hadn't yet metastasized ...

If you’re dealing with an illness and have swollen lymph nodes, they should return to normal size as you recover. In general, a lump that goes away within 1 to 2 weeks is not a serious problem.

The 85-year-old ESPN college basketball analyst and Lakewood Ranch resident recently underwent surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his neck. Doctors also removed 26 surrounding lymph nodes.

Her surgeon, John R. Sims, said in a statement Friday that Sanders “is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck.

Her surgeon, John R. Sims, said in a statement that Huckabee Sanders “is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck.