Ancillary molecular testing is being used increasingly to direct personalized cancer therapy for solid organ malignancies. In a large fraction of patients, these diagnoses are established by using ...

Locoregional lymphatic recurrence following axillary dissection for breast cancer. Background: There are multiple options for the diagnostic evaluation of mammographic suspicious breast abnormalities.

We compare the utility of core biopsy samples with surgical tumor specimens as starting material for microarray analysis. Two human tumor xenografts, Ewing sarcoma and neuroblastoma grown in ...

In recent years, small volume biopsies have been increasingly utilized for diagnosis of tumors in both primary and recurrent settings. Concomitantly, the numbers of ancillary studies for ...

A fine-needle aspiration biopsy may be done by an internist, family medicine doctor, radiologist, or a general surgeon. The biopsy may be done in your doctor's office, a clinic, or the hospital. You ...

We received back the results of Tom's Prostate Biopsy and they did identify cancer in 3/15 core samples taken. The doctors indicated that it was an intermediate grade cancer with a Gleason score of 7.

A new method analyzes the combination of tumor genetic material (genomics) with deep protein and phosphoprotein characterization (proteomics) using a single-needle core biopsy from a patient's tumor, ...

A review of medical records for almost 200 patients with breast cancer suggests that more selective use of biomarker testing for such patients has the potential to save millions of dollars in health ...

SAN ANTONIO ― It's an enticing idea in an age of breast cancer treatment de-escalation: omit surgery if a patient achieves what looks like a complete response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, ...