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Breast Cancer
Research from M. Basely and co-authors provides new data about breast cancer
June 18th, 2009
"A 79-year-old woman with invasive lobular breast carcinoma (staged T2N1M0) was treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormonotherapy 11 years earlier," researchers in Toulon, France report. "She was referred to our department for a fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET), because her serum calcium level recently increased. The whole-body images revealed only a single site of pathologic FDG uptake located in the umbilicus, on the course of the urachal canal," wrote M. Basely and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "Surgical biopsy of the nodule demonstrated histologic changes consistent with primary breast tumor and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2009-06-18)
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