Breast Cancer (Treatment)
Lymph Node Incision Biopsy May Be Replaced by PET Scanning
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 26th, 1996
The medical centers at the University of Michigan, Detroit; Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; and Washington University, Seattle, are conducting the studies. Researchers hope the positron emission tomography (PET) scan, proves to be at least as reliable as incision biopsy in finding cancerous cells in lymph nodes.
Smaller trials have found PET useful in detecting cancers. The U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) has given researchers at the...
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