Biopsies in a sentence

An MRI scan in conjunction with targeted prostate biopsies may detect prostate cancer better than standard biopsies, according to an international study.

After scans and biopsies, doctors at her local hospital gave her the shocking news that palliative care was the only option.

Experts believe that improvements to testing – including better scans and safer biopsies – mean the benefits may now finally outweigh the negatives, with a decision expected by the end of the year.

Further biopsies confirmed the walnut-sized mass was a rare grade three triple-negative cancer.

Screening for prostate cancer has been heavily debated in medical circles due to potential harms including side effects from biopsies and unnecessary testing for those with no clinically significant cancer.

She shared how she had to get two biopsies from different doctors to be sure.

So we have not looked at the serial biopsies yet for those -- for the patients who have given us permission to go ahead and sample again.

The Australian actor announced today he's just had two biopsies for what could be basal cell carcinomas.

Following multiple biopsies the lesion was luckily identified as pre-cancerous and slow progressing - but still required treatment.

I had to go for biopsies and was then told it was in my bones, spine, skull and collar bone.

It is usually diagnosed using blood tests, MRI scans and biopsies.

This is done in the hope that by the time they want a family, technology will have moved on so that their stored biopsies can be used to make sperm.

Among their samples of human breast cancer tumor tissue taken at biopsies, the team was able to produce an average of 100 reads per region.

His mother wrote: 'After multiple scans and invasive biopsies we discovered Saul had a stage 4 malignant rhabdoid tumour of the liver that had already spread to his arteries, up to the heart and metasised to his lungs.

It prescribes regular PSA testing and biopsies, to ascertain what’s happening with the cancer– is the cancer growing or basically in stasis.

The "Desperate Housewives" star was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2017, following a digital rectal exam with her gynecologist that prompted two further biopsies and one colonoscopy check up.

The test results, he said, have the potential to spare patients lung biopsies, which involve some risk and often yield inconclusive results.

Those first 32 days included blood transfusions, lumbar punctures, bone marrow biopsies, and surgery to put in a central line to her heart.

To test greater numbers of potential cancer drugs more quickly, for example, labs all over the world are creating three-dimensional cell cultures called “patient-derived organoids” from tumor biopsies.

In wealthy countries, cervical cancer is no longer a major killer because Pap smears, biopsies and surgery are readily available.