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Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Before Operation
Author(s) -
Magarey Christopher
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1978.tb131498.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast cancer , radiology , biopsy , cancer , general surgery
Fifty clinically malignant breast masses were biopsied in the consulting room with a large bore needle to provide a histological diagnosis before definitive treatment was planned. A correct diagnosis was made for all but one of 39 carcinomas, and for all 11 benign masses. This is, therefore, a useful method of confirming the diagnosis when breast cancer is suspected, but other methods (including open biopsy) are more suitable when breast cancer is to be excluded.