biopsy

Part of Pope Leo's right lung was removed in Tuesday's operation and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics were awaiting the results of a biopsy to determine if the cancer has spread.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Despite a battery of tests, including a contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy, experts could not determine exactly what was making her critically ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Scientists biopsy and genetically sequence a patient’s tumor cells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

With additional research, she hopes extracellular vesicles might one day function as a type of liquid biopsy.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Finally, when nothing could be found, one doctor ordered a muscle biopsy, taking a small piece out of Morrie’s calf.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

Despite scans and biopsies, experts could not figure out why she was ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

A false positive can send someone into scans and biopsies they never needed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

If a patient gets a positive test, they are instructed to undergo a cancer work-up, whether that’s imaging or biopsies.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The government said the clinic would offer women access to investigations including ultrasound scans and endometrial biopsies during the same visit, which could not be provided at a standard GP appointment.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

In this particular study—the largest ever done on the relationship between the two cervical cancers—Jones and TeLinde found that 62 percent of women with invasive cancer who’d had earlier biopsies first had carcinoma in situ.

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

Consultant plastic surgeon Neil Wickham checked her face, confirmed a biopsied lump on her arm was benign, and referred her to ENT for a separate lump in her neck.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

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

Before long, they were dating, and a couple weeks into their relationship, Amy asked about the scar on Staley’s neck, the spot that twice had been biopsied leading to his diagnosis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

The cells did grow, but when Hyatt biopsied them a few weeks later, they were all cancerous.

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