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Breast Cancer
Lobulitis frequently found in women at hereditary high risk of disease
July 14th, 2005
Pathologists in the Netherlands report they frequently find lobulitis in breast tissue of women at hereditary high risk of disease. B.B.J. Hermsen and colleagues, University of Utrecht, said the aim of their "study was to investigate closely the nature of premalignant lesions that occur in prophylactically removed breast tissue from patients at hereditary high risk of breast cancer." They analyzed "breast tissues obtained from 41 patients who underwent prophylactic mastectomy (pM) because of a hereditary high risk of breast cancer and control tissues from 82 age-matched healthy controls who underwent breast reduction surgery were screened for...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-14)
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