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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer published by researchers at University of Toronto
March 19th, 2009
"We sought to identify criteria for the intraoperative assessment of sentinel lymph node (SLN) involvement in women with early breast cancer. We also sought to determine whether the SLN nomogram developed by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) to predict nonsentinel lymph node (NSLN) involvement when the SLN is positive would accurately predict NSLN involvement in our patient population," investigators in Toronto, Canada report. "We performed 405 SLN biopsies in 397 women between January 1998 and June 2005. We determined factors associated with SLN metastases using univariate and multivariate logistic regression. Ninety women who had 1 positive SLN or...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-19)
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