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'One-Stop' Test for Breast Cancer
from the Times (London)
A new "one-step" test allows breast cancer patients to be treated directly if their disease has spread, meaning that they no longer have to wait weeks for test results to come back or undergo a second operation.
Surgeons say that thousands of women undergoing surgery could benefit from the rapid diagnostic test, known as the breast lymph node assay. It is already being used at hospitals in Surrey and Portsmouth, and is due to be recommended for implementation across the NHS next year.
Quicker and more reliable than existing checks, it involves analysing the glands under the arms, to check if the cancer has already spread, at the same time as a patient has a mastectomy or surgery to remove an initial tumour.
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