Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Ductal Breast Cancer

Watch out for this one! I was asked to do a search on "Breast Cancer of the ductal type", and when I typed those words into the Ovid Medline interface, they mapped to Breast Neoplasms and Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast.

I figured that the second one was what I wanted. However, perhaps there was a type of ductal breast cancer that wasn't a carcinoma? I thought a test might be useful.

(exp Breast Neoplasms/ and ductal.ti.) not exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/

1696 results !!!!!

I looked through the first few results, and they were all relevant and recent. No reasonable explanation whatsoever.

After a little further analysis from PubMed Reminer (a website of surpassing usefulness and awesomeness), I ended up with the following search:

exp Carcinoma, Ductal, Breast/ or (exp Breast Neoplasms/ and (exp Carcinoma, Intraductal, Noninfiltrating/ or exp Carcinoma, Ductal))