© 2003 by Oxford University Press
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Press Release
Study Suggests Common Use of Investigational Breast Cancer Test
jncimedia@oupjournals.org
| The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below. |
A new study suggests that surgeons are routinely performing an investigational procedure called sentinel node biopsy (SNB) on women with early-stage breast cancer, which the investigators say may be affecting the accrual and generalizability of ongoing trials of the procedure. The findings appear in the October 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
SNB is used to check the one