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Breast Cancer
Oncologists arrive at premetastasis tumor target size for screening equipment
April 7th, 2005
Based on various mathematical models and biological data, cancer researchers at the Free University of Brussels state that 3 mm is the size at which breast tumor growth begins to accelerate; therefore, the tumor target size for new screening technology is 2 mm. "It is important to determine a breast cancer tumor target size for new screening equipment and molecular detection," said V. Vinh-Hung and R. Gordon, both at the Free University of Brussels. To do this, the team abstracted "records of women aged 40-69 years diagnosed in 1988-1997 with a nonmetastasized, node-negative, or node-positive T1-stage breast cancer ...from the Surveillance,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-04-07)
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