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Breast Cancer
Studies from A. Perhavec et al in the area of breast cancer described
September 4th, 2008
In this recent report, researchers in Ljubljana, Slovenia conducted a study "Touch imprint cytology (TIC) is a fast, cheap and specific intraoperative examination of the sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) in early breast cancer patients. The results of TIC in patients with ultrasonically (US) uninvolved axillary lymph nodes are not known." "The objective of our study was to compare the results of TIC in the patients with US uninvolved axillary lymph nodes (US group) and those with only clinically uninvolved axillary lymph nodes (non-US group). A total of 470 patients were included in the study, 257 in the US group and 213 in the non-US group. TIC results were compared to the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-09-04)
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