Ancillary molecular testing is being used increasingly to direct personalized cancer therapy for solid organ malignancies. In a large fraction of patients, these diagnoses are established by using ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2006;21(11):1646-1655. A cooperative patient is an important condition for a complication-free performance of the biopsy. Sudden movements have to be avoided to prevent ...

Ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) has long been used as a safe and effective way to evaluate thyroid nodules in adults, usually without sedation. Less is known about the safety and ...

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) specimen processing and ...

A minority are aggressive cancer that requires treatment, leaving physicians and patients with a problem — which nodules need to be biopsied for malignancy tests, which nodules show a small risk and ...

Crowdfunding for lung cancer costs. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component.

Ultrasonographically guided needle aspiration -- a minimally invasive treatment for uncomplicated superficial skin abscesses -- has a failure rate of almost three in four, researchers reported. In a ...

Liver biopsies often use needles to remove a small amount of tissue from the liver for examination. A doctor can use the biopsy to diagnose and assess conditions that affect the liver. A liver biopsy ...