Breast Cancer: Biopsy after Screening
Dr. Starr Mautner, Breast Surgeon with Miami Cancer Institute, explains if there is an abnormality on a mammogram or a breast ultrasound, the radiologist will recommend a biopsy. "When they read the mammograms they give it a scoring system, and anything that is four or five means it is suspicious or very suspicious for cancer and that triggers a biopsy."
She says a biopsy is performed with a small needle inserted into the breast at the site of the abnormality for taking a tissue sample to be seen for a pathologist can make a diagnosis of breast cancer.
