Saturday, July 4, 2009

SENTINEL NODE SCAN

Essentially you inject Tc-labelled nanocolloid into where the cancer is and wait for a 1/2 hour to see where hot spots appear. Usually there will be several.

Each of these hot spots that appear is a node and you then mark the skin at those sites so that the surgeon can cut where X marks the spot (to biopsy those nodes).

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