Surgical biopsy was the “gold standard” for breast diagnosis before the early 1990s, when most patients with breast cancer presented with clinical symptoms and were referred to surgeons for diagnostic ...

Needle biopsy, the standard of care radiological procedure for diagnosing breast cancer, is underused with too many patients undergoing the more invasive, excisional biopsy to detect their disease, ...

A new procedure that uses infrared technology is making getting a surgical breast biopsy a lot easier. The SAVI SCOUT Technology is a localization method — "a way to map the exact location of an ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. FNA biopsy permits the sampling of cells from breast ...

Biopsies are done to confirm a cancer diagnosis. There are several different types of biopsies. An excisional biopsy removes an entire suspected tumor as well as some of the surrounding skin. It’s ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Hundreds of thousands of women with abnormal mammograms annually undergo surgical breast biopsies when they should be having simple needle biopsies, according to a Houston study. The study found ...

Needle biopsy, the standard of care radiological procedure for diagnosing breast cancer, is underused with too many patients undergoing the more invasive, excisional biopsy to detect their disease, ...