biopsy

She was eventually referred for a biopsy and was diagnosed with lichen sclerosus and vulval cancer.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

But first a tissue sample had to be provided, which required a tricky biopsy that Farmer delegated to a very competent Haitian surgeon in Mirebalais.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Instead of relying on invasive brain biopsies to look for characteristic tissue abnormalities, doctors could use genetic testing from a blood sample to identify the mutations associated with the disease.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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

But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn’t require such consent.

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

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

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