Surgeons' unanimous consensus: Needle biopsy is gold standard for breast cancer diagnosis
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
A special report published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that an alarming 35% of initial diagnostic breast biopsies in the United States are still being done using unnecessary open surgical techniques. This in spite of the fact that it costs as much as three times more than the much less invasive and equally accurate needle biopsy technique.