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Breast Cancer

Micro- and Macrometastatic Growth Patterns Differ In Human Tumors

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 6th, 2001

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - A new study has revealed metastatic growth patterns emerge differently in patients with breast cancer.

Those differences show up in comparisons between lymph node evaluations of micrometastases or macrometastases, according to Nancy Klauber-DeMore and coworkers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

"Clinically undetectable micrometastases may account for disease recurrence in breast cancer patients after variable disease-free intervals," Klaber-DeMore and coworkers said in a report on the new research.

To understand how growth patterns evolve in patients with...

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