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Diagnostic methods in breast cancer

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The curability of breast cancer can be increased by efforts at early diagnosis using mammography, self-examination of the breast and periodic examinations in a cancer screening program. We have studied a triple diagnostic approach that combines clinical examination, mammography and fine needle aspiration biopsy in women with breast symptoms and have found that diagnostic accuracy is increased, breast cancer is diagnosed earlier, treatment is better planned, radical surgery is usually possible without preliminary open biopsy, precancerous lesions are detected, high risk groups of patients are identified, and surgical biopsy of benign lesions can be avoided in many patients.

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La curabilité du cancer du sein peut Être accrue en s'efforÇant de réaliser un diagnostic précoce par l'usage de la mammographie, par l'auto-examen et par des examens périodiques dans un programme de dépistage. Nous avons utilisé une triple approche diagnostique combinant l'examen clinique, la mammographie et la biopsie à l'aiguille chez les femmes présentant une Symptomatologie mammaire. Nous avons constaté que la précision du diagnostic est accrue, que le cancer est diagnostiqué plus précocement et que le traitement est mieux planifié. L'indication d'exérèse est habituellement possible sans biopsie chirurgicale, les lésions précancéreuses sont détectées, les patientes à haut risque sont identifiées et la biopsie chirurgicale des lésions bénignes peut Être évitée chez un grand nombre de patientes.

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Johnsén, C., Bjurstam, N. Diagnostic methods in breast cancer. World J. Surg. 1, 290–294 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01556840

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