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Breast Cancer
Recommendations for breast cancer core biopsy listed
April 19th, 2005
Scientists recommended procuring additional breast cancer core biopsies in cases of large tumors. According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Letters, "For breast cancer management biopathologic profile and particularly the expression of estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) is considered essential. In advanced cases, core biopsy results are the only data available. To evaluate reliability of data, results of ER, PR, MIB1, p53 and c-erbB2 on core biopsy were compared with those on surgical specimens." "Results showed a statistically significant concordance for ER and PR in pT1 but not in pT2 tumors, possibly...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-04-19)
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