Surgery involving sentinel lymph node biopsy for middle-aged women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer may do more harm than good, according to a new study led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers.
May 22 2024University of Pittsburgh Surgery involving sentinel lymph node biopsy for middle-aged women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer may do more harm than good, according to a new study led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers. The team used a novel artificial intelligence pipeline developed by Realyze Intelligence, a UPMC Enterprises portfolio company, to analyze electronic health records.
"Even though there is a relatively low risk of lymphedema after sentinel lymph node biopsy, this condition can have devastating effects on a person's quality of life," said senior author Emilia Diego, M.D., associate professor of surgery and chief of the Breast Surgery Division at Pitt and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program at Hillman Cancer Center and UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital.
"There's a lot of valuable data in the electronic health care record that is hidden within unstructured physician notes," said Carleton. "The power of Realyze is that it goes into these notes and pulls out information by looking at the language itself and, importantly, the context of that language. So, it allowed us to look not only for records of lymphedema but also where that lymphedema was located.
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