TY - JOUR
AB - hospitalnursing CANCER NEWS ROUNDUP Therapy System. Called a brachytherapy applica- Genetic analysis helps predict tor, the device is designed to irradiate the surgical survival in lymphoma patients site where the lump was removed with minimal A new test may be better able than traditional damage to surrounding tissue. It consists of a hol- methods to predict survival in some patients with low catheter with an inflatable balloon. After the aggressive types of lymphoma. Rather than gauging device is implanted into the breast at the lumpec- survival by factors such as a patient’s age and the tomy site, the balloon is inflated and a radioactive stage and spread of disease, the test involves look- source is placed into the catheter. The balloon ing at the cancer cells’ genetic mater- ial. In a recent study, researchers stud- ied tissue samples from 240 patients Radiologists may be missing far more breast cancer tumors than pre- with diffuse large-B-cell lymphoma. sumed, according to a yearlong New York Times investigation. By evalu- They created a survival prediction ating studies and interviewing hundreds of physicians and mammogra- index by analyzing 17 genes. Patients phy regulators, researchers in New Hampshire and North Carolina found whose cancer 
TI - Mammography Playing radiologist roulette
JF - Nursing2017
DA - 2002-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wolters-kluwer-health/mammography-playing-radiologist-roulette-hypDk05i4Y
SP - 32hn6
EP - 32hn6
VL - 32
IS - 10
DP - DeepDyve
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