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Breast Cancer
Recent findings in breast cancer provide new insights
October 25th, 2005
Breast cancer research advances have been reported from Japan, the United States and Greece. Study 1: Increasing patient age did not affect the efficacy of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) using smaller-sized technetium-99M tin colloids. "Increasing age of breast cancer patients was reported to cause not only failure of SLN identification but also false negative results. A retrospective review was conducted of breast cancer patients who underwent SLNB using small-sized technetium-99m-labeled tin colloid (particle size: 200-400 nm in diameter)," scientists in Japan reported. "A comparison between 82 patients who were <60 years...
Source: cancer weekly (2005-10-25)
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