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Breast Cancer
Scientists at University of Texas publish new data on breast cancer
May 7th, 2009
According to recent research from the United States, "The intraoperative evaluation of axillary sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) allows the surgeon to complete axillary dissection in I setting at the time of the primary breast surgery. However, to the authors' knowledge, there is no consensus regarding the optimal method for intraoperative evaluation of SLNs in breast cancer." "The authors of this report prospectively compared touch imprint (TI) cytology with frozen section (FS) analysis and rapid cytokeratin immunostaining (RCI) of SLNs for the intraoperative evaluation of disease and compared the results with final pathologic examination (FP). Patients with invasive breast...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-05-07)
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