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Breast Cancer
New research on breast cancer from Addenbrooke's Hospital summarized
March 26th, 2009
"The aim of this study was to see how effective ultrasound-guided needle biopsy was at detecting lymph node involvement in patients with early breast cancer. Patients with newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer underwent axillary ultrasound (US) where lymph node size and morphology were noted," researchers in Cambridge, the United Kingdom report. "A core biopsy (CB) was undertaken of any node greater than 5 mm in longitudinal section. Patients with benign CBs proceeded to sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy, whereas those with malignancy underwent axillary lymph node dissection (ALND). US and CB findings were correlated with final surgical histology in all cases. One...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-03-26)
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