New Test Gives Women Faster Breast Cancer Results


	New Test Gives Women Faster Breast Cancer Results

ljsdesign

10-30-2009 8:48 AM

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When doctors were using the technique to look for coronary artery disease during stress tests of the heart, they discovered the radioactive substances also lit up areas of breast cancer.

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