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Breast Cancer
Investigators at University of Jena zero in on breast cancer
July 10th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, " The gold standard of axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in breast cancer is the combination of radioactive colloid and blue dye injection. Worldwide, numerous hospitals without access to radioactive tracers still perform a routine complete axillary lymph node dissection (ALND)." "We retrospectively analyzed the false negative rate and identification rate of SLNB with injection of blue dye in the absence of radioactive colloid and compared the subareolar (SA) and the peritumoral (PT) injection. Patients and methods Two hundred and fourteen patients with...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-07-10)
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