Breast Cancer
Investigators at Emory University publish new data on breast cancer
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, October 4th, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Cancer Cytopathology, "Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) is a rapid and accurate procedure for the detection of breast carcinomas. The evaluation of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) expression by immunohistochemistry (IHC) is performed routinely on formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded needle-core (NC) or excision tissue block (TB) preparations, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologist guidelines."
"In this retrospective study, the authors compared expression levels of ER, PR, and HER2 in ethanol-fixed...
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