biopsy

Doctors send a blood sample and biopsy of the tumor, where the cancer’s genetic profile is analyzed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Eksteen said a recent contrast CT scan and bone marrow biopsy “have provided our veterinary team with important new information” but added the picture remains incomplete.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

"I disappeared off the other week and I had a biopsy, and it is cancer, and it's aggressive, but it's really early," he said.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Then, a few days later, Jones got her biopsy results from the pathology lab: “Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I.”

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

No surprise, the panel agreed with him and concocted pretexts to kill the treatment—for instance, the staff opined that maybe biopsies had zapped the tumors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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

But these biopsies can be very invasive and sometimes cause harm, and doctors may struggle to get a sample.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

The nurse said the doctor had successfully removed the growths and was sending them off for biopsies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 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

Einziger also biopsied a patch on his arm for Grimes to analyze.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

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

After three months, muscles from participants’ legs were biopsied, and scientists analyzed the activity level of over 20,000 genes in the tissue samples.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

I biopsied it and checked it under the microscope.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

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