Novel imaging device tells breast surgeons if they’ve left any tumor behind
A new ultrasound device helps improve surgeons’ ability to complete a lumpectomy in one procedure, according to data presented this week at the 2011 CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in Texas.
“It is clear to us that for women to have successful breast-conserving surgery and to make their risk for recurrence in the breast as low as possible, the edges of the lumpectomy must be completely free of cancer,” Dr. Freya Schnabel, from New York University’s Langone Medical Center in New York City, told Reuters Health.
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