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Doc Chat: New Best Practices for Breast Cancer
Hosts: Kathy Miller, MD, Barbara Lewis
Interview: Kathy Miller, MD
We begin this week with two reminders that “best practices” in medicine continue to evolve.
Recent studies by breast cancer specialists have called into question two standard practices for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: the use of surgical biopsies and removal of cancerous lymph nodes.
It turns out that there are safer alternatives for both options.
In this Doc Chat, Sound Medicine’s breast cancer expert, Dr. Kathy Miller, MD, discusses the studies and their implications with host Barbara Lewis.
Dr. Kathy Miller is a breast cancer specialist at the IU Simon Cancer Center and the IU School of Medicine. And she is a regular contributor to Sound Medicine.
Additional Resources:
- Also, why needle biopsies are preferrable to surgical ones. From the NYT.
- More on why it may not be necessary to remove lymph nodes in breast cancer patients. From the NYT.
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