Featured Article: Optimizing pathological assessment of breast cancer in Brazil: recommendations from a multidisciplinary working group on the tumor-tissue journey
In this review, authors present an outline of breast cancer epidemiology and challenges in diagnosis, with a particular focus on Brazil. They report the results of a multidisciplinary working group convened in May 2020 to discuss the barriers related to the journey of breast cancer samples in Brazil. The main issues for improving the journey and quality of breast cancer samples are grouped under four headings pertaining to education, communication, procedures in the operating room and sample transportation, and procedures in the pathology laboratory. This paper has been published jointly, upon invitation and consent, in both the Surgical and Experimental Pathology and the Mastology journals.
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