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Annals of Oncology Advance Access published online on September 4, 2007
Annals of Oncology, doi:10.1093/annonc/mdm435
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© 2007 European Society for Medical Oncology

letter to the editor

Oxytocin: bringing magic into nipple aspiration

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A large need remains for new noninvasive breast cancer screening modalities. Nipple fluid, that contains breast epithelial cells, is produced in the breast ducts of nonlactating women and can be collected by vacuum aspiration. Previous studies failed to obtain nipple fluid in a considerable proportion of women.

We assessed the feasibility of carrying out oxytocin-supported nipple aspiration on 67 healthy female volunteers. Nipple fluid was aspirated through use of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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KPM Suijkerbuijk1, E van der Wall2 and PJ van Diest1,*

1 Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands
2 Division of Internal Medicine and Dermatology

* E-mail: p.j.vandiest@umcutrecht.nl


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