Professionals distinguished by an article on breast cancer techniques
Professionals from the ibs.GRANADA and the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital have received the award for the best original article published in the Spanish Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in which a work on sentinel lymph node biopsy after chemotherapy in patients with operable breast cancer and positive axillary nodes at diagnosis.
This distinction has been awarded within the 34th Congress of the Spanish Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging recently held and the authors of this article have been Ángel Rebollo, Marta Gallego, Rocío Sánchez, Elena Pastor, Juan García, Clara Chamorro and Salomón Menjón, members of the Breast Unit of the Granada hospital.
The objective of the study was to assess the usefulness of selective sentinel node biopsy, for which a prospective analysis was carried out between 2008 and 2012 in 52 patients with a mean age of 50,7 years and with invasive breast cancer in the It is determined that it is a safe and feasible technique for the evaluation of lymph node involvement.
This work is the result of a line of research started with a project subsidized by the Council of Equality, Health and Social Policies of the Junta de Andalucía (PI-0080/2007, Validation of the intraoperative detection technique and selective biopsy of the sentinel node in patients with operable breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy), and the doctoral thesis of the specialist in Nuclear Medicine, Marta Gallego, who had already received the Award for the Best Communication on Oncology at the congress of this same scientific society three years ago. years.