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Can primary breast cancer patients sense the presence of lymph node metastasis? An unexpected research finding
B De Brabander1, P Gerits, R Sacré
1Department of Research Methods and Behavioural Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
|July 29, 1998
Abstract:
We found that primary breast cancer patients with lymph node metastasis, compared to patients without apparent metastasis, had a greater expectation that their breast lump biopsy would be malignant. This difference in expectation between the two groups remained after controlling for a range of possible confounding variables.
