Prospective Randomized Trial of Use of In-House Prepared Low-Cost Radiopharmaceutical Versus Commercial Radiopharmaceutical for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Patients with Early Stage Invasive Breast Cancer

ConclusionIn this prospective randomized trial on early breast cancer patients, accuracy of SLNB was comparable using in-house prepared,99mTc-antimony colloid and commercially marketed99mTc-sulphur colloid as radiopharmaceutical, while99mTc-antimony colloid was much cheaper than99mTc-sulphur colloid.
Source: World Journal of Surgery - Category: Surgery Source Type: research