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Breast Cancer
Reports from J.M. Lee and colleagues advance knowledge in breast cancer
December 18th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "The purpose of our study was to determine the frequency of complete removal of the imaging target at MRI-guided vacuum-assisted biopsy of breast cancer and to assess the residual cancer rate at surgery in these lesions. With the approval of our institutional review board, retrospective review was performed of 416 consecutive lesions that underwent MRI-guided 9-gauge vacuum-assisted biopsy, of which 76 (18%) yielded cancer." "Medical and pathology records were reviewed. Vacuum-assisted biopsy histology in 76 cancers was ductal carcinoma in situ in 39 (51%) and invasive cancer in 37 (49%). Median MRI lesion size in these 76...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2008-12-18)
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