Open AccessTo Biopsy or Not to Biopsy: Is That the Only Question?
Author(s) -
Dawood Shaheenah,
GonzalezAngulo Ana M.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.2011-0432
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , breast cancer , metastatic breast cancer , oncology , cancer , pathology
The clinical effects of discordance in receptor status between primary and metastatic breast cancer lesions are discussed in relation to the study of Macfarlane et al. published in this issue of The Oncologist .