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Breast Cancer
Recent studies by S. Vanesser and co-authors add new data to breast cancer findings
January 29th, 2009
"Wire guided localization (WGL) for non-palpable breast cancer is technically difficult and patient unfriendly. Radio guided occult lesion localization (ROLL) takes advantage of the possibility to detect the tumor through the nuclear tracer that is injected directly into the tumor for the sentinel node procedure," researchers in Netherlands report. "Forty patients with 41 invasive breast carcinomas were treated using ROLL. Patients received a dose of 120Mbq 99mTc Nanocolloid intra-tumorally on the day of surgery or a dose of 370Mbq 99mTc Nanocolloid intra-tumorally the prior day. The sentinel node (SN) was located using patent blue and a gamma ray detection probe that...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-01-29)
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