Breast Biopsies and Medical Malpractice
Posted on Feb 13, 2011 8:15pm PST
It is being reported that most breast lumps in women just need to be looked at under a microscope to determine if they are cancer. However, new research is reportedly saying that too many women are getting unnecessarily aggressive open biopsies. Out of about 1.6 million breast biopsies in the U.S., only about 200,000 result in a diagnosis of invasive cancer. That means, about seven in eight women are undergoing an invasive biopsy that is not needed when other tests would determine the same.
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