Re: Breast biospy?
I just talked to my best friend last night, she had a momogram and they found a suspicious area. They want to do a biospy, what do they do? Needle, or core biospy? Anyone know? She's pretty scared.
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A needle (core) biopsy may be done. A doctor uses a needle to take a small piece of tissue from the lump or abnormal area. Local anaesthetic is injected into the area first to numb it. You may feel a little soreness or a sensation of pressure for a short time. Several biopsies are usually taken at the same time.
The sample is then sent to a laboratory to be looked at by a doctor who is expert at diagnosing illness by looking at cells (a pathologist). Depending on the number of biopsies taken, the breast tissue may be quite bruised and sore afterwards, and this may take a couple of weeks to completely disappear.
well for her sake hopefully it will just be needle, but she could call today and ask.good luck to her!!
Breast biopsy.by local anesthesia where the tumor removed completely if it is small or part of it if large.
Fine needle aspiration done by needle introduce in the tumor and aspirate deposit on slide and send to the lab.
any of this procedure is save and most of the time specially the biopsy done under local anesthesia.
go ahead and do it and it is the best way to find the tumor if benign or malignant.
wish you luck
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