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Volume 9 (2009) - January 2009

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Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer using methylene blue dye manifests a short learning curve among experienced surgeons: a prospective tabular cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis

Jeffrey M East, Christopher SP Valentine, Emil Kanchev, Garfield O Blake BMC Surgery 2009, 9:2 (27 January 2009)

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Methylene blue dye is an effective, affordable tumor mapping agent, which shortens the learning curve for surgeons to perform successful sentinel lymph node biopsies in breast cancer patients when assessed on an individual basis.

Study protocol   Open Access

A prospective, non-randomized phase II trial of Trastuzumab and Capecitabine in patients with HER2 expressing metastasized pancreatic cancer

Andre Mihaljevic, Peter Büchler, Jan Harder, Ralf Hofheinz, Michael Gregor, Stephan Kanzler, Wolff Schmiegel, Volker Heinemann, Esther Endlicher, Günter Klöppel, Thomas Seufferlein, Michael Geissler BMC Surgery 2009, 9:1 (8 January 2009)

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