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Breast Cancer
Study results from P. Gebousky and colleagues update understanding of breast cancer
April 23rd, 2009
According to recent research from Prague, Czech Republic, "Secondary lymphedema of upper limbs, a frequent complication after a breast cancer therapy, can be successfully treated only when diagnosed at an early, ideally latent, stage. Lymphoscintigraphy is a promising candidate to this purpose." "A slow lymphatic dynamics of upper limbs allows. however, a routine collection at most three images reflecting it. This makes an exploitation of lymphoscintigraphy to early-stage diagnosis a complex task. Recently, a Bayesian methodology extracting diagnostic information from the available sparse data has been developed. It properly detects lymphedema occurrence but not a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-04-23)
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