A systematic review and economic evaluation of intraoperative tests [RD-100i one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) system and Metasin test] for detecting sentinel lymph node metastases in breast cancer

A systematic review and economic evaluation of intraoperative tests [RD-100i one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) system and Metasin test] for detecting sentinel lymph node metastases in breast cancer

Background: In breast cancer patients, sentinel lymph node biopsy is carried out at the same time as the removal of the primary tumour to postoperatively test with histopathology for regional metastases in the sentinel lymph node. Those patients with positive test results are then operated on 2–4 we...

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Main Authors: Nicola Huxley, Tracey Jones-Hughes, Helen Coelho, Tristan Snowsill, Chris Cooper, Yang Meng, Chris Hyde, Rubén Mújica-Mota
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2015-01-01
Series:Health Technology Assessment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/hta19020

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