Aprovincial judicial inquiry has been struck to determine how and why hundreds of breast
cancer patients received inaccurate hormone receptor tests at Newfoundland and …

Canadian public inquiry into botched estrogen receptor tests has shaken public confidence
in cancer care and raised questions about the oversight of laboratories that perform crucial …

The treatment of newly diagnosed breast cancer patients with hormonal treatment is
determined by the presence of estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor status in breast …

More than 100 women have died after receiving inaccurate results on a critical breast cancer
screening test, health authorities in Newfoundland revealed yesterday as the province …

Laboratory errors led to the misdiagnosis and incorrect treatment of 383 patients between
1997 and 2005, resulting in 108 deaths, the Newfoundland's provincial Commission of …

Background: In 2007, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador established the
Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing to examine problems with estrogen …

Diagnosisisamongthemostimportantpartsoft…-cal encounter; thus, the critical examination of
how best to gauge the effectiveness of individual diagnostic tests is essential to good …

Although the importance of guaranteeing a high level the preanalytical quality in routined
diagnostic testing has already been mainly confirmed about an past decades, minor …

Diagnostic tests are expensive, and they are frequently used excessively and
inappropriately. House officers, most of whom have little appreciation of test prices, order too …

Urinalysis for drugs became prevalent about seven years ago with the distribution of a
cheap, easy-to-use test kit known as EMIT (Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique) …