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Isn't Gleason score and grading only used for prostate cancer? sm

Posted By: MT and worn out on 2009-02-18
In Reply to: word help - Jennifer Wyatt

Subject: Isn't Gleason score and grading only used for prostate cancer? sm

I have typed urology for 19 years and have never heard of the Gleason score and grading being uysed for breast cancer. I included a link.

http://www.prostate-cancer.org/education/staging/Dowd_GleasonScore.html



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