Biopsy Quotes

Went in for a biopsy and they definitely determined it was malignant. - Donna Hughes

We used MRI to visualize individual macrophages. By tracking single cells, we also were able to observe, for the first time, that rejection progresses from the outside of the heart to the inside. Up to now, this phenomenon hasn't been observed in pre-clinical or clinical research because biopsy samples are very limited in location and size. - Chien Ho

We find that a lot of them have very significant cancer that needs to be treated but wouldn't have been treated unless we had done this biopsy. - Dr. Gary Onik

Unfortunately, we're finding that [the TRUS biopsy] is really not very effective at all. When you look at the statistics of a normal size gland the chances of actually finding that tumor are about 15 percent. So, 85 percent of patients by that biopsy method may be missing their cancer. - Dr. Gary Onik

Twelve hours. It can stretch out forever when you're waiting to hear the report on a biopsy. It can literally evaporate when it's the last hours spent with a dying loved one. Or, it can bring hundreds of people together in the fight against cancer through Relay for Life. - Sheila Blankenship

They did a chest CAT scan for him and a back MRI and some blood tests and it didn't show any cancer. He refused a biopsy in order to determine if he really has cancer or not [of the prostate]. - Bakhtiar Amin

That's a very minimally invasive test, and it gives us the same answer as a biopsy. - Eric Henderson

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out. - Don Baylor

It's like playing Battleship with the prostate. Every hole that we have has a coordinate, and we can place the needle through that. We have a picture that overlays and shows us the prostate and where that biopsy's being taken from. Then, we can basically look at the picture when we get a positive biopsy back and see exactly where the cancer is in the gland. - Dr. Gary Onik