biopsy
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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
After ruling out more serious autoimmune conditions, my new dermatologist did a scalp biopsy and finally diagnosed me with fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution, or FAPD, in which inflammation damages hair follicles via scarring.
From Slate ● May 23, 2026
The company launched a liquid biopsy for cancer and blood-based tests for Alzheimer’s disease.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
It was not until after she had an ultrasound and biopsy that she was diagnosed.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Including Henrietta. o n February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henriettas biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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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
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
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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
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
I biopsied it and checked it under the microscope.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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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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