TY - JOUR
T1 - Handling of radioactive seed localisation breast specimens in the histopathology laboratory: The Western Australian experience
AU - Dessauvagie, Benjamin
AU - Frost, F.A.
AU - Sterrett, Gregory
AU - Hardie, Mireille
AU - Parry, Jeremy
AU - Latham, B.
AU - Westcott, Eliza
AU - Rourke, T.
AU - Burrage, J.
AU - Bourke, A.
AU - Taylor, Donna
AU - Kamyab, R.
AU - Saunders, Christobel
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - © 2014 Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Radio-guided occult lesion localisation using iodine-125 seeds (ROLLIS) is a novel method of localisation for impalpable in situ and invasive carcinomas that has been the subject of a recent pilot study and pilot study extension in Western Australia. Robust protocols for radiation safety, specimen labelling, specimen tracking, seed retrieval and seed disposal were developed at two Western Australian laboratories to minimise the risk of seed loss. The processes are safe and effective with no significant radiation exposure to pathologists and with acquisition of all seeds intact and undamaged. The success can be attributed to developing specific seed retrieval techniques, suited to local preferences at each institution, with input from surgeons, radiologists and medical physics personnel. These techniques are now routine and will continue in the randomised control phase of the ROLLIS study.
AB - © 2014 Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia. Radio-guided occult lesion localisation using iodine-125 seeds (ROLLIS) is a novel method of localisation for impalpable in situ and invasive carcinomas that has been the subject of a recent pilot study and pilot study extension in Western Australia. Robust protocols for radiation safety, specimen labelling, specimen tracking, seed retrieval and seed disposal were developed at two Western Australian laboratories to minimise the risk of seed loss. The processes are safe and effective with no significant radiation exposure to pathologists and with acquisition of all seeds intact and undamaged. The success can be attributed to developing specific seed retrieval techniques, suited to local preferences at each institution, with input from surgeons, radiologists and medical physics personnel. These techniques are now routine and will continue in the randomised control phase of the ROLLIS study.
U2 - 10.1097/PAT.0000000000000197
DO - 10.1097/PAT.0000000000000197
M3 - Article
C2 - 25485655
SN - 0031-3025
VL - 47
SP - 21
EP - 26
JO - Pathology
JF - Pathology
IS - 1
ER -