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biopsy

[bahy-op-see] / ˈbaɪ ɒp si /


NOUN
operation
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STRONGEST
STRONG
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The content creator said her daughter underwent numerous X-rays, ultrasounds and a biopsy before the hospital team determined the cancer diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

A biopsy revealed cancer, and then after a MRI scan she was told she had stage four metastatic breast cancer.

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

The company launched a liquid biopsy for cancer and blood-based tests for Alzheimer’s disease.

From Barron's Apr. 30, 2026

After a week getting steroids and pain medicine at Providence St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, he received the biopsy results: an extremely aggressive malignant mass was blocking blood flow to Duong’s optic nerve.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 30, 2026

When he saw the photographs of her biopsy, he immediately realized her tumor had been misdiagnosed.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

These patients “are having more and more and more scares, biopsies, concerns, and they feel like they already have cancer,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

Classifying a patient as cured also allows them to avoid intrusive, and sometimes painful, screening tests, like bone marrow biopsies.

From Slate Mar. 29, 2026

Liquid biopsies that measure cfDNA have already shown promise for identifying cancer.

From Science Daily Mar. 6, 2026

Her parents say GPs had downgraded her referral for biopsies to a routine one because of her age, meaning her cancer went undetected until it was too late.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2026

TeLinde set out to minimize what he called “unjustifiable hysterectomies” by documenting what wasn’t cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

In diagnostic testing, a pathologist examines biopsied tissues under a microscope to identify cellular abnormalities that may hint at disease.

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2024

So McGrane and colleagues biopsied the tongue of a 6-year-old male cat that had been euthanized for health reasons unrelated to the study.

From Science Magazine Aug. 25, 2023

The “Strong Looks Better Naked” author opened up about her history with skin-cancer scares in 2016, telling then-users of her official app that she frequently has moles checked and often has to have them biopsied.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 1, 2023

In the study, researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark biopsied abdominal fat from young, sedentary men, older sedentary men and physically active older men, most of them longtime and frequent cyclists.

From Washington Post Oct. 12, 2022

In 1951, the same year Jones biopsied Henrietta’s tumor, researchers from Columbia University reported that the two types of cancer were easily and often confused.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

But the laborious strategy deployed in this study — biopsying the tumor, sequencing it and then dividing the patients into mutation-guided treatments — provided few novel therapeutic inroads.

From New York Times Jun. 13, 2018

The movement today is toward biopsying 5-day embryos using microarray comparative genomic hybridization, which examines all 23 chromosome pairs and provides a more detailed picture of the entire length of the chromosomes.

From Slate Mar. 19, 2014




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