Jr,Crowe,JP,Rim,A,Patrick,RJ,Rybicki,LA,Grundfest-Broniatowski,SF,Kim,JA,Lee,KB.Does core needle breast biopsy accurately reflect breast pathology?.Journal of Surgery. 2003Joseph P, Crowe J, Rebecca J, et al. Does core needle breast biopsy accurately reflect breast pathology[J]. Surgery, ...
Does a PET scan show prostate cancer? Prostate Cancer: Prostate cancer is usually detected through a number of routine screening methods, such as a blood test, biopsy, digital rectal exam or a range of imaging tests. Prostate cancer grows very slowly, so treatment may not be necessary immediat...
A total of 3145 breast cancer patients subjected to sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) between November 2008 and June 2015. SLN metastases were identified in 719 patients (22.9%). Locoregional recurrences and distant metastases as endpoints were distinquished. The mean follow-up time for patients ...
First, the breast is tightly (and often painfully33) compressed between two imaging plates. If cancer is present in the breast during this compression it can result in metastasis.34Next, the x-ray image is taken and the patient receives a 10 mSv (millisievert) dose of ionizing radiation, a...
When undergoing tumor removal in breast cancer, the patient may be required to stay in the hospital before and after the operation. This helps to monitor the patient's health condition, specially in older patients and ensure that they are healthy for the operation procedure....
Methods: A prospective breast cancer data base was used to identify women 70 years old and older who underwent SLND for axillary staging of invasive breast cancer between 1991 and 1998. Results: There were 75 invasive breast cancers in 73 women. The mean patient age was 74.5 years (range, ...
Adjuvant chemotherapy is a life-saving intervention in selected high-risk breast cancer patients. The aim of our study was to determine how IBR and type of reconstruction affect the timing of the initiation of chemotherapy. Methods: We obtained data from female breast cancer pa...
The mean age of the patients at the time of breast cancer surgery was 43.29 years in the no complication group and 42.29 years in the complication group. There was no significant differ- ence in the number the patients less than 40 years old and those more than 40 years old between the ...
ASA, mean (SD) 1.96 (0.4) 1.93 (0.3) 0.6171 ASA categories, n (%) ASA I 10 (8.1%) 3 (6.8%) 0.9608 ASA II 107 (87%) 41 (93.2%) 0.2671 ASA III 6 (4.9%) 0 1 Surgical Indication Breast cancer, n (%) 123 (100%) 44 (100%) 1 Operative characteristics unilateral, n (...
” And I thought I was going to be a complete burden to both of them. And those were my feelings going in. And when I told her she just grabbed both my hands and started praying. It was powerful, really powerful. And then from there we had the biopsy, and it was successful. And...