Breast Cancer/TESTING BIOPSY

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Expert: - 4/20/2007


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Dr Nordquist,  

Hi,  My mom just had a stereotactic biopsy preformed, they used a type of needle to extract a sample. My questions are
what tests are preformend and how long does it normally take to get the results.

thanks

Ken

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The main purpose of a biopsy is to study the cell and tissue architecture of the tissue sample in the biopsy with a microscope in order to reach a diagnosis of whatever lesion they need to study. If it was a thin needle biopsy only cell studies were possible. If it was a wide bore needle also tissue studies are possible. Often the main purpose is to find out if the lesion is cancerous or not. Well a week to 10 days is perhaps a reasonable time to expect.

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