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Breast Cancer
Reports summarize breast cancer research from Rhode Island Hospital
March 27th, 2008
In this recent article published in the journal Radiology, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To retrospectively assess the sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonographic (US)-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of axillary lymph nodes for preoperative staging of breast cancer across a range of primary tumor sizes, by using histologic findings as a reference standard. Institutional review board approval was obtained for this HIPAA-compliant study; informed consent was waived." "US-guided FNA results in 74 patients with breast cancer (75 axillae) were compared with final pathologic results. Lymph nodes were classified as benign, indeterminate, or...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-03-27)
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