Schepps B, Scola F H
Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence 02903, USA.
R I Med. 1995 Sep;78(9):239-41.
Over the past 25 years the radiologist's role in the diagnosis of breast cancer has expanded from merely confirming the clinical suspicion of neoplasm to detecting occult nonpalpable tumors and now percutaneously obtaining tissue for histologic assessment. The cancer the radiologists discover is smaller in size and earlier in stage, allowing more conservative surgical approaches. This, coupled with adjuvant radiation therapy and chemotherapy, is producing newly demonstrated mortality reduction in this disease so feared by American women.
在过去25年里，放射科医生在乳腺癌诊断中的作用已从仅仅证实临床对肿瘤的怀疑，扩展到检测隐匿的不可触及肿瘤，如今还能经皮获取组织进行组织学评估。放射科医生发现的癌症在尺寸上更小，分期更早，这使得手术方式更为保守。再加上辅助放疗和化疗，正使这种令美国女性如此恐惧的疾病的死亡率有了新的显著降低。
