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The pathologist – a key person in a multidisciplinary team of breast cancer

BOŽENA ŠARČEVIĆ ; University Hospital for Tumours University Hospital Center “Sestre milosrdnice” HR-10000 Zagreb, Ilica 197, Croatia

Sažetak

Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer has progressed rapidly in recent
20 years. The diagnosis was first based on clinical appearance that changes
after the introduction of mammography in the diagnosis. Development of
radiological techniques has led to the detection of a small and non-palpable
lesions, and surgeons are increasingly applied conserving procedures for breast cancer. Therefore, today is a very important multidisciplinary team in the treatment of patients with breast cancer. A pathologist is a key member of the multidisciplinary team because must determine the number of prognostic and predictive factors for patients with breast cancer which requires some standardized protocols and processing of tissue samples.

Ključne riječi

Hrčak ID:

138046

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/138046

Datum izdavanja:

30.12.2014.

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