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Old 12-13-2013, 12:41 AM   #1
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Over-use of staging procedures more prevalent in younger, early-stage breast cancer p

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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