Breast Cancer

Research on breast cancer described by N. Besic and colleagues

Published in Women's Health Weekly, January 21st, 2010

According to recent research from Ljubljana, Slovenia, "Surgical treatment of non-palpable solitary invasive carcinoma consists of localization, tumorectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy which can successfully be performed with the use of isotopes (SNOLL). The aim of our study was to find out the success rate of SNOLL and the factors that correlated with complete excision of invasive carcinoma."

"Solitary non-palpable carcinoma was preoperatively diagnosed in 181 cases. After peritumoral injection of nanocolloid labeled with 99mTc under mammographic (N=79) or ultrasound (N=102) guidance, tumorectomy and sentinel node biopsy were performed. Clear surgical margins were...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2010-01-21)

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