Breast Cancer
Investigators at Duke University release new data on breast cancer
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 15th, 2010
"Breast conserving surgery, in which the breast tumor and the surrounding normal tissue are removed, is the primary mode of treatment for invasive and in situ carcinomas of the breast, conditions that affect nearly 200 000 women annually. Of these nearly 200 000 patients who undergo this surgical procedure, between 20%-70% of them may undergo additional surgeries to remove tumor that was left behind in the first surgery, due to the lack of intraoperative tools that can detect whether the boundaries of the excised specimens are free from residual cancer," scientists in the United States report.
"Optical techniques have many attractive attributes that may make them useful...
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