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explained to her,” the MCV pathologist noted.
This prevents the patient, upon waking following surgery, from suffering the double-barrel shock of learning that the lump was malignant and that the breast was removed.
“Prior knowledge of a diagnosis of cancer also alerts the physician to other tests that should be carried out before embarking on an operative treatment,” said Dr. Walter Lawrence Jr., director of MCV’s Cancer Center.
If a definite diagnosis is made from the needle aspiration biopsy, the patient is saved a considerable amount of money as compared to the normal method of performing a frozensection biopsy. In most conventional biopsies a wedge of tissue is surgically removed from the anesthetized patient and the patient remains under anesthesia for the 20-30 minutes required to perform the lab work. If definite surgery is carried out at a later date after the lab work reports a diagnosis of cancer, the risk involved in the operation increases because of the need for a second anesthesia, which also in
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