The nodes that listen remove the packets which they have queued for retransmission.

And the vast majority of study participants were still cancer free at five years - about 82% in the group that had their axillary lymph nodes removed and 84% who had only their sentinel lymph nodes taken.

Patients who are treated with breast-conserving surgery may also have some of the lymph nodes under the arm removed for biopsy.

In 2010, Gwynn was diagnosed with cancer of a salivary gland and had both lymph nodes removed.

They all later had their axillary lymph nodes surgically removed for study.

Two weeks after having her right breast and some surrounding lymph nodes removed because of cancer, the Democratic nominee for North Dakota governor, the candidate with the bouquet of red hair, is back on the campaign trail, edging toward fever pitch.

Butler, a former Atlanta Braves outfielder who was diagnosed with throat cancer, learned Tuesday that only a thumb-sized node removed May 21 was malignant and that the cancer had not spread to the other 49 nodes removed at the same time, said Lowery Robinson of Lawrenceville, Ga.

Pat Malone had her lymph nodes removed as part of her breast cancer treatment, and for almost a decade she managed to keep her lymphedema, a chronic condition that causes swelling from an accumulation of fluid, under control.

The nodes forward frames in one direction around the ring, removing a frame when it has circled the ring once.