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Breast Cancer
Learning curve guidelines modified for breast cancer sentinel node biopsy
July 14th, 2005
The learning curve guidelines for breast cancer sentinel node biopsy were modified. "Guidelines for the learning period of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer do not address important details such as the false negative rate way of calculation and the number of patients with positive axilla that should be included among the cases of this period. The aim of this study was to identify refinement points which should be included in the guidelines," scientists writing in the journal Ejso reported. "We studied 138 breast cancer cases of the sentinel lymph node biopsy learning period of three surgeons. The sentinel node was identified using...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-14)
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