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Breast Cancer
Findings from University of California advance knowledge in breast cancer
August 21st, 2008
"Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has largely replaced axillary dissection (ALND) for axillary staging in early breast cancer. However, intense pathologic evaluation is not routinely available intraoperatively; therefore, patients with SLN metastasis may require a second surgery for completion ALND," scientists in the United States report. "We hypothesized that a single-section approach (by either frozen section [FS] or touch preparation analysis [TPA]) could be accurate for intraoperative SLN evaluation. We performed a prospective, blinded study of patients undergoing SLNB for breast cancer from September 2004 to July 2006. SLNs were bivalved along the long axis,...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-08-21)
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