Breast Cancer

More Accurate Cancer Diagnosis Advances Reported

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 14th, 1997

Dr. David M. Goldenberg, Immunomedics, Morris Plains, New Jersey, reported on important advances in the diagnosis of breast cancer with CEA-Scan, and in the therapy of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) with LymphoCide.

The data was reported in a speech given at the Health Care Industry Conference of The New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). More than 30 million mammograms are performed annually in the U.S., and as many as 500,000 lead to biopsies because of ambiguous findings. Most of those turn out not to be cancerous.

With the recent new guidelines of the American Cancer Society suggesting annual mammograms for women beginning at age 40, the...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-04-14)

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