FAQs On Mastectomy

Biopsy for suspected stomach cancer is done with the help of endoscopy.

Biopsy is done under a local anesthesia. Hence it is not a painful procedure.

No. Biopsy is an office procedure and does not require admission. However, you are required to stay back in the hospital for a few hours after the procedure. This is to monitor you and make sure everything is fine before sending you home.

When tumor is arising in the following organs, and appears to be operable, a biopsy is not recommended in usual circumstances. Liver Biliary tract Pancreas Kidney Early stage ovarian cancer Small retroperitoneal and mediastinal tumors Small soft tissue tumors in the limbs or in the trunk.

Based on patients’ age, symptoms, clinical findings supported by CT/MRI/PET scans an oncologist can diagnose the presence of cancer with reasonable certainty.

However, the gold standard for diagnosing a cancer is considered to be a biopsy. Hence ,to start a cancer directed treatment a diagnosis based on biopsy is required.

Biopsy gives us the tissue bits from concerned organ/body area. These can be studied under a microscope by a pathologist to confirm or rule out presence of cancer.

Biopsy is an invasive procedure where a few bits of tissue are removed from an organ with the help of a biopsy needle.

Breast screening aims to find breast cancer early by using an X-ray test called a mammogram that can spot cancers when they are too small to see or feel.

Addition of hormonal therapy depends on tumour biology which varies from patient to patient.

All patients of breast cancer who have ER/PR receptors positive in final histopathology report are put on some form of hormonal therapy for 5 to 10 years.