Oncology Medical News about fine-needle aspiration biopsies

Become a Member Today!
Register

Most Viewed Abstracts

1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians

2. Recommendations on the use of 18F-FDG PET in oncology

3. Taxane-based combinations as adjuvant chemotherapy of early breast cancer: a meta-analysis of randomized trials

4. Gene expression signatures, clinicopathological features, and individualized therapy in breast cancer

5. Sentinel node biopsy is important in mastectomy for ductal carcinoma in situ

Your Article Summary

See Latest Articles

(Click the title below to leave the MDLinx Network and go to the Journal's Website)

Evidence-based evaluation of the risks of malignancy predicted by thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsies
Diagnostic Cytopathology, 10/14/09

Marchevsky AM et al. – A National Cancer Institute (NCI) "Thyroid Fine–Needle Aspiration (FNA) State of the Science Conference" recently proposed standardized nomenclature and "risks of malignancies" associated with various diagnostic categories. The authors evaluated the evidence levels of the data used by NCI to predict malignancy risks and whether those estimates had clinical validity in the patient population. Relative risk and 95% CI calculations suggested that the NCI classification could be simplified into three categories: "benign", "FLUS + neoplasm", and "suspicious + malignant".

<< Previous
Current treatment paradigms of superior sulcus tumours

Next >>
Acute myeloid leukemia with mutated NPM1: diagnosis, prognosis...

Fine-needle aspiration of primary osseous lesions: A cost effectiveness study
Diagnostic Cytopathology, 10/06/09 Relevance Score: 80%

Thyroid fine needle aspiration biopsy: is topical local anaesthesia beneficial?
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 11/05/09 Relevance Score: 79%

Ultrasound and fine needle aspiration cytology of the axilla in the pre-operative identification of axillary nodal involvement in breast cancer
European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 10/19/09 Relevance Score: 78%

Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Thyroid Nodules: Experience in a Cohort of 944 Patients
American Journal of Roentgenology, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 78%

Lymphocytic Thyroiditis on Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy of Focal Thyroid Nodules: Approach to Management
American Journal of Roentgenology, 10/08/09 Relevance Score: 78%