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Breast Cancer Diagnostics
Fine needle aspiration cytology used as adjunct to core biopsy in breast cancer diagnosis
January 12th, 2006
Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) could be used as an adjunct to core biopsy (CB) in diagnosing symptomatic breast carcinoma. According to recent research from England, "CB has now largely replaced FNAC in the preoperative assessment of breast cancer. We studied the contribution of FNAC, when done as an adjunct to CB, in cancer patients presenting symptomatically. One hundred and twelve patients had both CB and FNAC preoperatively and subsequently had surgery (wide local excision or mastectomy)." "CB and FNAC were done clinically in half the patients and under ultrasound guidance in the majority of others. The complete sensitivity of FNAC was...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-12)
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