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Breast Cancer
New diagnostic system could become international standard
July 7th, 2005
Pathologists with the University of Kansas School of Medicine have devised a new diagnostic system for breast cancer evaluation that could soon become the international standard. "The key is trying to say how aggressive a cancer is going to be. Then using that information, oncologists can direct a course of action which has the greatest likelihood of success," said Ossama Tawfik, MD, PhD, professor and director of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology at KU. Tawfik and Marilyn Davis, director of the Image Analysis Laboratory, worked with other pathologists, oncologists, surgeons, and investigators at KU to come up with a new grading system that will...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-07)
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