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Endometrial Cancer
Bad practice in Scotland may have cost lives in cancer battle
July 4th, 2002
Failure to follow routine procedures recording the spread of cancer may have cost lives, a Scottish survey revealed June 11, 2002. Surgeons operating on women with endometrial cancer failed to follow the recognized guidelines in assessing how far the disease had progressed in two-thirds of Scottish cases studied according to a report published in the British Journal of Cancer. Death rates were significantly higher where guidelines were not followed. The process known as "staging" is vital to enable correct recommendations to be made for the most suitable treatment, which will depend on how far the cancer has spread. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-07-04)
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