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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Repeat Breast Cancer Surgery Guidelines Found Unclear - NYTimes.com



".....Nearly half the repeat operations were done in women whose pathology reports did not indicate that any stray cancer cells had been left behind, meaning that the operations probably did not help the patients. More disturbingly, 14 percent of patients who did have evidence of cancer left behind did not have another operation, for unknown reasons...."