Staging Investigations in Asymptomatic Early Breast Cancer Patients at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario.

Nonspecific findings (defined as radiologic abnormalities of indeterminate significance requiring follow up as reported by the radiologist) were detected in 89 SIs (68 CT scans, 19 bone scans and two abdominal ultrasounds), which triggered a total of 138 follow-up radiological scans in 71 (42%) of the 168 patients that had initial Sis, including: CT scan (n = 75), ultrasound abdomen (n = 29), MRI liver (n = 14), bone scan (n = 4), chest X-ray (n = 5), bone X-ray (n = 5), MRI spine (n = 4) and PET scan (n = 2).

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