Breast Biopsy: Uses & Procedure
If a patient has a mammogram or ultrasound with a mask, or she has a palpable mass a biopsy is mandatory.
Dr. Starr Mautner, Breast Surgeon with Miami Cancer Institute, explains tissue diagnosis is the only way to know for sure if the lesion is benign.
She also describes the most common way to diagnose a breast cancer. Nowadays, physicians take a small piece of tissue out of the lesion and have the pathologist look at it on the microscope to give them a diagnosis.
