Bone scanning in patients with early breast carcinoma: Should it be a routine staging procedure?

Bone scanning is a sensitive test for the detection of metastatic breast cancer, but not all abnormal findings on bone scan are diagnostic of skeletal metastasis. Recent studies have found a relatively low rate (≤5%) of abnormal scans in patients with Stage I and II breast cancers, and only half of...

Ausführliche Beschreibung