biopsy

He asked his doctors to remove it and conduct a biopsy, which came back cancerous.

Reaching this conclusion based on the biomarkers is like diagnosing cancer without doing a biopsy.

He said there had been a delay in getting biopsy results for Ms Turbill, which he said was because of a shortage of trained staff and staff-leave.

In October of that year, a biopsy found a Grade 2 ductal cancer, the same grade as her original cancer, Mr Ströhle said.

Mr Ströhle told inquest counsel Jonathan Jones that his partner first saw Paterson privately in June 2002 after a biopsy found cancer in her left breast.