In a recent report, it has been made clear that there is growing concern about women who, though have gone through lumpectomies for breast cancer once, must be given repeated operation or not. Such concerns have been often expressed by patients and even doctors have admitted that there is lot be done to make patients clear about the same.

There are many patients who are being repeatedly operated even though they are not being entitled for the same. The report clearly mentioned that the rates of surgery are varying between zero and 70%. It is being believed that this is nothing less than a shame for the medical community that such confusions still persists even after 30 years of the treatment.

Published online Tuesday by The Journal of the American Medical Association, the study was led by Dr. Laurence E. McCahill, a surgeon and Assistant Director of the Lacks Cancer Center in Grand Rapids, who examined medical records of 2,206 women who have gone through lumpectomies at one of four hospitals in different parts of the country.

It has been found that doctors at times fail to interpret the pathology reports correctly, in which it is mentioned if there is need for any infected cell being left or not.

While the research is being given the attention, it is being believed that there are good chances that fresh guidelines would soon come into picture, though it would require support from the medical experts and the general public. “It is getting to be the time for leaders in radiation oncology and surgery to get together and make a consensus statement that could help to guide their membership”, said Mich. Dr. Monica Morrow, the chief of breast surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

This is high time that some much warranted changes are being made so that this percolating confusion could be removed which could benefit millions of patients.