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Staging the axilla in women with breast cancer: the utility of preoperative ultrasound-guided needle biopsy

Cancer Biology & Medicine, 2014
Preoperative staging of the axilla in women with invasive breast cancer using ultrasound-guided needle biopsy (UNB) identifies approximately 50% of patients with axillary nodal metastases prior to surgical intervention.
Nehmat Houssami, Robin M. Turner
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Asymptomatic hepatitis B virus-positive patients visiting dental outpatient department in North India: A multicentric study

Journal of International Clinical Dental Research Organization, 2020
Background: In India, it is estimated that nearly 3%–4% of the population is affected by hepatitis-B virus (HBV). During the initial stage of the disease, the patient is asymptomatic, and there is a possibility for cross infection to dental surgeons and ...
Richik Tripathi, Nidhi Singh, Prajesh Dubey, Himanshu Thakural, Dipti Samal, Abhishek Laha   +5 more
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Radiographers supporting radiologists in the interpretation of screening mammography: a viable strategy to meet the shortage in the number of radiologists. [PDF]

, 2015
BackgroundAn alternative approach to the traditional model of radiologists interpreting screening mammography is necessary due to the shortage of radiologists to interpret screening mammograms in many countries.MethodsWe evaluated the performance of 15 ...
A Mohar, AH Chapman, AH Dowdy, Andy Bogart, Angélica Angeles-Llerenas, B Mucci, BJ Hillman, BP Soh, CA Beam, Carolina Ortega-Olvera, Diana L. Miglioretti, DL Miglioretti, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Ernesto Montemayor-Varela, FJ Biggelaar van den, FJ Biggelaar van den, FM Knaul, FS Alcorn, G Richardson, G Torres-Mejia, G Torres-Mejía, G Wivell, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Gilberto Sánchez-González, I Bassett, JA Haiart dcaH, JH Sumkin, JJ Deeks, JM Tonita, K Bright, K Unger-Saldana, Karla Kerlikowske, L Andronis, L Cataliotti, L Tabar, L Tabar, LE Duijm, Louis Martínez-Matsushita, LS Palacio-Mejia, María de la Luz Carranza-Flores, Mauricio Hernández-Ávila, N Reynoso-Noveron, OG Martinez-Montanez, Olga G. Martínez-Montañez, PJA Robinson, PM Taylor, R Pauli, RL Bennett, RM Friedenberg, Robert A. Smith, S Field, SA Petticrew MP, Santos R. Uscanga-Sánchez, SB Cantor, Sergio Bautista-Arredondo, TN Smith, V Mai, WE Barlow   +57 more
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Estimation of treatment preference effects in clinical trials when some participants are indifferent to treatment choice

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2017
Background In the two-stage randomised trial design, a randomly sampled subset of study participants are permitted to choose their own treatment, while the remaining participants are randomised to treatment in the usual way.
Stephen D. Walter, Robin M. Turner, Petra Macaskill, Kirsten J. McCaffery, Les Irwig   +4 more
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Analytical dilemmas in lupus anticoagulant detection

Exploration of Immunology, 2023
Accurate lupus anticoagulant (LA) detection is crucial to antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) diagnosis. Detection is based on LA functional behavior in coagulation assays irrespective of epitope specificity. LA screening tests employ dilute phospholipids to
Gary W. Moore
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Frequency of HTLV-1 seroconversion between pregnancies in Nagasaki, Japan, 2011–2018

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
BackgroundHuman T-cell leukemia virus type-1 (HTLV-1) is transmitted vertically from an infected mother to her child via breastfeeding during infancy or horizontally via sexual contact.
Nahoko Komatsu, Masako Iwanaga, Yuri Hasegawa, Shoko Miura, Naoki Fuchi, Hiroyuki Moriuchi, Katsunori Yanagihara, Kiyonori Miura   +7 more
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Home bowel cancer tests and informed choice—is current information sufficient?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2003
Objectives: To evaluate the type of information that is available to purchasers of home‐based bowel cancer test kits. Methods: Manufacturers, pharmacies and independent testing programs were contacted to obtain faecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits. State
K. Howard, G. Salkeld
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Can a Questionnaire Be Useful for Assessing Reading Skills in Adults? Experiences with the Adult Reading Questionnaire among Incarcerated and Young Adults in Norway

Education Sciences, 2021
Background: Good screening tools can be of immense value in educational counselling for adults. We report two studies where we explored the factor structure and discriminative power of the Adult Reading Questionnaire (ARQ) in different samples of young ...
Arve E. Asbjørnsen, Lise Øen Jones, Ole Johan Eikeland, Terje Manger   +3 more
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High throughput biodegradation-screening test to prioritize and evaluate chemical biodegradability [PDF]

, 2017
Comprehensive assessment of environmental biodegradability of pollutants is limited by the use of low throughput systems. These are epitomized by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Ready Biodegradability Tests (RBTs), where ...
Martin, Timothy J., Goodhead, Andrew K., Acharya, Kishor, Head, Ian M., Snape, Jason, Davenport, Russell J.   +5 more
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Screening: Testing times [PDF]

Nature, 2012
Pap tests have been a mainstay of cervical cancer screening, but new tests, vaccines and knowledge might be changing that, including when and how frequently to test.
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