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Can you tell me about a neck dissection?
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Surgery: A neck dissection is surgery to remove lymph nodes in the neck. It is done when cancer has spread to the neck lymph nodes or when the chance is high that cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. The neck dissection can be selective or radical, depending on the cancer.
Answered 2/9/2014
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