Younger, early breast cancer patients often undergo unnecessary staging, imaging proc

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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.

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