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Breast Cancer



Expert panel says better options exist for diagnosing breast cancer



November 3rd, 2005

Physicians should strive to replace traditional, invasive procedures for diagnosing breast cancer with proven, less-invasive diagnostic methods, according to an international panel of breast cancer experts convened at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC).

In a consensus paper published in October's Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), 23 leading surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, and oncologists said minimally invasive needle breast biopsies and sentinel node biopsies should be performed more routinely than they currently are. In the case of breast biopsies, the experts said open surgical biopsies...


Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-11-03)

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