The diagnosis is generally established by core needle biopsy after which preoperative combination chemotherapy is followed by surgery, either with limb salvage or less commonly nowadays by amputation.

A physical exam, imaging, and blood tests may indicate the presence of bone cancer, but only a biopsy can confirm it. Approximately 60% of people with bone cancer have disease-free long-term survival.

One possible explanation for the results of this study is sampling error, given the intratumoral heterogeneity for these factors in osteosarcoma. A core or incisional biopsy is typically a very ...

Core biopsy was more accurate than fine-needle biopsy in all three areas. For identifying malignancy, fine-needle aspiration had 79.17% sensitivity, 72.7% specificity, 67.9% positive predictive ...

The gene expression profile detected in the core needle biopsy of a breast tumor is representative of gene expression in the whole tumour. A study published today in the open access journal Breast ...

Doctors always need a biopsy to confirm a bone cancer diagnosis. They can do this in two ways: Core needle biopsy: The doctor inserts a thin needle into your bone to remove a small tissue sample ...

Stereotactic- and ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy procedures were almost as accurate as surgical biopsy in women of average-risk suspected of having breast cancer; however, the core needle ...