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Breast Cancer
Research on breast cancer described by T. Shuto and colleagues
October 2nd, 2008
In this recent article published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, scientists in Kanagawa, Japan conducted a study "To evaluate the efficacy of gamma knife surgery (GKS) for the control of peritumoral oedema associated with metastatic brain tumours. A retrospective study of 280 consecutive metastatic brain tumours-100 from lung cancers, 100 from breast cancers and 80 from renal-cell carcinomas, associated with peritumoral oedema." "The peritumoral oedema index was measured as A*B*C, where A (cm) was the maximum diameter of peritumoral oedema on the axial image, B (cm) was the maximum diameter perpendicular to A, and C (cm) was the maximum...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-10-02)
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