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Breast Cancer
Findings from A.J.G. Maaskant and co-authors broaden understanding of breast cancer
February 10th, 2009
According to recent research from Netherlands, " Introduction of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) as an axillary staging procedure in breast cancer patients could have led to upstaging as well as downstaging of their disease. Intensified pathological processing could have led to upstaging due to presence of micrometastases, whereas the described false negative rate of 5% could be a cause of downstaging." "We investigated whether or not the introduction of the sentinel node procedure has changed the incidence of axillary nodal micrometastases and induced stage migration on a population based level. Data from the population based Eindhoven Cancer Registry were used on all (n =...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-02-10)
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