Diagnostics
Recent findings in diagnostics provide new insights
Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 19th, 2006
Study 1: Axillary lymph node status of breast cancer patients could be predicted by the biology of the primary tumor.
"The increasing use of systemic adjuvant therapy even in lymph node-negative breast cancer patients and breast cancer screening programs detecting smaller tumors with less probability of metastatic lymph nodes questions the need for routine axillary lymph node dissection," researchers in Germany reported.
"Since morbidity of breast cancer surgery is predominantly related to axillary lymph node dissection, predictive models for lymph node involvement may...
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