Younger, early breast cancer patients often undergo unnecessary staging, imaging procedures at time of diagnosis
More than one third of younger, early stage breast cancer patients undergo
unnecessary imaging procedures - including position emission tomography (PET),
computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine bone scans (NMBS) and tumor markers
(TM) -- at the time of staging and diagnosis, according to research from The
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Source: M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - News Releases - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news