health diaries




Breast Biopsy

A list of the articles on this blog about Breast Biopsy.



Breast Biopsy is Best Detection Method
I have written here about the core breast biopsy I had a few years ago, and I just finished reading an interesting article that compares the different success rates for detection methods. The breast biopsy was judged to be the...

Needle Biopsy Safety
I received an article in an email today. It talks about a June 2004 report from the John Wayne Cancer Institute in California. Here is the first paragraph: "Needle biopsies, widely used and accepted as a safe and reliable test...

Benign Fibroadenoma!
Great news.....it was a benign fibroidenoma....no evidence of cancer. What a relief! I didn't realize just how nervous I was until about 2:00 today and I knew I was about to find out. A couple of words on the other...

Core Biopsy
Well, yesterday was certainly interesting! I went for my mammogram and got some bad news. Actually I was a year late this time. I usually schedule a mammogram every year because Mother had breast cancer. Two years ago I had...