Surgeons' unanimous consensus: Needle biopsy is gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 09:56 in Health & Medicine

Newport Beach, Calif. -- October 5, 2009 -- A special report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that an alarming 35% of initial diagnostic breast biopsies in the United States are still being done using unnecessary open surgical techniques.

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