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Successful oxytocin-assisted nipple aspiration in women at increased risk for breast cancer.
Familial cancer - 1 Sept 2010
Suijkerbuijk Karijn P M, van der Wall Elsken, Meijrink Helen, Pan Xiaojuan, Borel Rinkes Inne H M, Ausems Margreet G E M, van Diest Paul J
Abstract excerpt
The high rate of interval malignancies urges for new screening methods for women at high risk for breast cancer. Nipple aspiration provides direct access to the breast tissue and its DNA, and therefore is a likely candidate, but clinical applications have been limited by the failure to obtain nipple aspiration fluid from most women. We performed oxytocin-assisted nipple aspiration in 90 women at increased risk...
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