Research shows biopsy of recurrent breast cancer can alter treatment

Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 05:43 in Health & Medicine

For women with recurrent breast cancer, the treatment the doctor chooses is usually based on the properties of their original breast cancer. A group from Toronto has recently completed the world's first study that compared original breast cancer tumors with a biopsy of suspected tumors that recurred elsewhere in the body.

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