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OCT may improve breast cancer diagnosis

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Breast cancer is usually identified through mammography and subsequent biopsy of any suspicious sites in the breast, but approximately 70 to 80 percent of biopsies are negative, according to the American Cancer Society. A recent study showed that, when used as an adjunct to mammography, an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner improved breast cancer diagnosis. Researchers at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital and at Royal Victoria Hospital, both in Montreal, and at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston used a near-IR laser-based OCT scanner from Advanced Research Technologies Inc. of...Read full article

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    Published: March 2007
    BiophotonicsbiopsyFrom The Clinicmammographyoptical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner

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