UK Cost Watchdog OKs Test to Speed Post-Cancer Surgery Results

The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says women with breast cancer should have access to a test that lessens the wait between surgery and learning if the disease has spread. The new test gives more rapid results to waiting surgeons and analyzes the whole lymph node, reducing the chance that tiny particles of cancer are missed, an Aug. 7 guidance by the cost-benefit agency says.
International Medical Device Regulatory Monitor