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Trace elements: Innovative biopsy programs map how cancer spreads
When doctors do take biopsies, they want
to do so in a way that is safest for patients,
says Roy Herbst, a lung cancer oncologist at
the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven. In
lung cancer, for example, the oncologist might
choose not to take biopsies of metastases from
the liver, because these extra biopsies could
lead to bleeding complications. “Remember,
you are sticking a needle through the skin
using guided imaging for most of these,”
Herbst says.
Source: Nature Medicine