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Posted by
Prashant Jani

Date
April 20, 2009
10:04 pm

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Surgical Pathology

Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping-Pathology Protocol

www.oncopathology.blogspot.com Sentinel lymph node mapping is now performed on selected patients who opt for conservative surgery to treat their breast cancer. The procedure involves the surgical identification of those axillary lymph nodes that theoretically would be the first ‘‘sentinel’’ nodes to receive the lymphatic drainage from the breast harboring the invasive cancer. If these nodes [...]

Posted by
Kenneth Youens

Date
February 25, 2009
3:32 pm

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General

Biopsy Anxiety

One of my colleagues just pointed out this interesting post from the New York Times Well Blog. It’s a commentary on a recent paper published in the journal Radiology which followed cortisol levels of women waiting for breast biopsy results. Predictably, they found that waiting and uncertainty was correlated with higher cortisol levels. From the [...]

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