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Breast Cancer Screening
Combination of mammography, ultrasound, and clinical examination yields best accuracy
December 8th, 2005
A combination of mammography, ultrasound and clinical examination was found to yield the best accuracy in clinical tumor staging. "Mammography (MG), breast (BU) and axillary ultrasound (AU), and clinical examination (CE) are commonly used for clinical staging," explained researchers in Germany. "These different methods were compared in order to assess the accuracy of clinical tumor staging (cT)." K. Heusinger and colleagues described their study: "About 503 breast cancer (BC) patients were prospectively measured by MG, ultrasound and clinical examination. Pearson's correlation to pathological tumor size (pT) was tested and the deviation of MG, BU and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-08)
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