Unnecessary Surgeries?
About 1.6 million women get breast biopsies every year. A new study shows many of these women are undergoing unnecessary, expensive procedures. Dr. Jon LaPook reports.
Categories: Breast Cancer Mammogram Tags: surgeries, unnecessary
PEM Scanners May Reduce Unnecessary Breast Biopsies and Offer an Alternative for Women Who Cannot Tolerate MRI
PEM Scanners May Reduce Unnecessary Breast Biopsies and Offer an Alternative for Women Who Cannot Tolerate MRI
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – 03/15/10) – New data from an NIH-sponsored, multi-site study of hundreds of women with newly diagnosed breast cancer shows that Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) may reduce unnecessary breast biopsies. The study found that PEM was significantly more precise at identifying benign and cancerous lesions, in what scientists call “Positive Predictive Value” or “PPV …
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Categories: High Risk Breast Cancer Tags: Alternative, Biopsies, breast, Cannot, offer, Reduce, Scanners, Tolerate, unnecessary, women
Hospital admits patient had unnecessary mastectomy
Hospital admits patient had unnecessary mastectomy
Grave-faced Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital officials announced Wednesday that one of their surgeons made a “serious error” by performing a mastectomy last fall on a patient who did not have breast cancer.
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Categories: Breast Cancer Lump Tags: admits, hospital, mastectomy, patient, unnecessary