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at m d anderson in houston, you have to get a diagnosis of cancer,
before you can get treatment.
in order to get a diagnosis of cancer from them, you have to go through
their breast clinic.
at the clinic, they do a biopsy (or biopsies).
if you do have cancer, then aspirations & biopsies would probably spread
the cancer.
if i had any more suspicious lumps, then i would have them taken out &
examined.
i would not have any more aspirations done, & i would not have a biopsy,
where they surgically remove a piece of the lump for testing &
diagnosis.
if they are going to take a piece out, then why not just take the whole
lump out?
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- I have had breast cancer twice..two biopsies
why didnt my cancer spread if that is the case? I am no doctor but I would
guess the best idea is to trust in people who *know* and not listen to old
wives tales. "if" doctors thought that cancer could be spread this way, I
am sure they would not perform biopsies etc. -At any rate, cancer is rarely an emergency. Say you have cancer, you get
the lump biopsied, some cancer cells escape, you find out it's cancer, you
get treatment. The few cells that are floating around are likely to be
destroyed by chemotherapy. There are all kinds of reasons that women have lumps in their breasts, and
to do disfiguring surgery on someone whose lumps may turn out to be
fibrocystic due to too much coffee or something strikes me as a little
over-the-top. The reason, by the way, that M.D. Anderson and other cancer centers don't
offer much in the way of alternative treatments is that alternative
treatments hardly ever have hard scientific evidence behind them.
Believe me, when an alternative treatment is found to be good for treating
cancer, no one is going to sit on it. The drug companies will race to be
the first to patent it and thus make big bucks on it.
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