Cytopathologist and breast pathologist at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM).

Joined May 2020
My tweets are NOT medical advice. Do NOT perform FNA on yourself and diagnose yourself at home based on my tweets.
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Philippe Stephenson, MD retweeted
CC392. For the boards. Adult patient with lung Ca and suspected meningeal carcinomatosis. CSF sample (1.0 ml). How would you report it? #cytopath A. Non-Diagnostic B. Negative for Malignancy C. AUS D. Suspicious for malignancy E. Malignant
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For people who primarily sign out breast: how many mastectomy specimens do you see per year? How many cancer resections?
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And in this case, the evidence base for the treatment is quite weak anyhow, with national health authorities disagreeing radically on the question.
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