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Joerg Heil, MD, PhD, on Image-Guided Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy

2019 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

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Joerg Heil, MD, PhD, of the University Hospital Heidelberg, discusses findings on how accurately this technique can diagnose residual disease and pathologic complete response after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer. These data may help tailor, de-escalate, and potentially avoid unnecessary surgeries (Abstract GS5-03).



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