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Breast Cancer
Study results from Kaiser Permanente broaden understanding of breast cancer
March 20th, 2008
Researchers in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate the diagnostic properties of FDG-PET and bone scintigraphy in the detection of osseous metastases in patients with breast cancer. Studies evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of FDG-PET and bone scintigraphy in the diagnosis of osseous metastasis were systematically searched for in the MEDLINE, CINAHL, and EBM Review databases from January 1995 to November 2006." "Two reviewers independently abstracted data including research design, sample size, imaging technique and technical characteristics, reference standard, method of image interpretation, and totals of true positives, false positives, true negatives,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-20)
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