Breast Cancer: Pathology, Cytology, and Core Needle Biopsy Methods for Diagnosis

摘要: Successful cancer treatment relies on a combination of clinical examinations, imaging studies, and pathologic evaluations. Pathologic diagnosis should not be bypassed even when health care resources are very limited clinical/radiologic findings suggestive breast cancer. A timely accurate can achieved by the use appropriate tissue sampling techniques, optimal processing, competent interpretation findings. Accurate preoperative confirms malignant nature lesion documents baseline expression prognostic predictive biomarkers, thus enabling clinicians to make therapeutic strategies such as planning extent surgery. Methods obtaining samples cytohistological techniques histopathological features spectrum pathology discussed in detail.