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Cervical Cancer Screening
Lower staging accuracy is observed for CT/MRI in evaluation of cervical cancer
February 23rd, 2006
Lower staging accuracy was observed for CT and MRI in the pretreatment evaluation of cervical cancer. A recent report published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology compared "magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) with each other and to International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) clinical staging in the pretreatment evaluation of early invasive cervical cancer, using surgicopathologic findings as the reference standard." H. Hricak and colleagues of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center described their study: "This prospective multicenter clinical study was conducted by the American College of...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-02-23)
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