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Core Needle Biopsies Can Reduce Unnecessary Surgical Breast Biopsies.
2001 MAY 10 - (NewsRx Network) -- Unnecessary surgical breast biopsies can be dramatically reduced if women with abnormal mammograms undergo core needle biopsies first, a new study shows.
Core needle biopsies - which don't scar or deform the breast - are not yet the standard of care in the U.S.
A study of 1,103 women conducted from July 1998 - June 2000, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, showed that 42% of surgical biopsies found cancer. The women in the study had surgical excision if their core biopsy was positive, Jessica Leung, MD, told the American Roentgen Ray Society on May 1, 2001, at its annual meeting in Seattle, Washington.
That compares to a previous study done at Brigham and Women's Hospital from January 1987 - December 1988 of 1,160 women that found that only 19% of the surgical biopsies done found cancer. These women had abnormal mammograms but did not undergo core needle biopsy first, she says. (The study was done before core biopsy was readily available.)
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- Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week May 24, 2004 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, Core Needle Biopsies Can Reduce Unnecessary Surgical Breast Biopsies.