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  • In the 1970s, Ruth found a lump in her breast, and until it was biopsied and found negative, she thought she might have cancer.†   (source)
  • They cut a wedge out of his liver —a liver biopsy—and dropped the wedge into a bottle of pickling fluid and closed up Musoke as quickly as they could.†   (source)
  • She had a biopsy done last week: her left breast.†   (source)
  • He had me go in for a biopsy, and that's when we found out it was malignant.†   (source)
  • Early that morning I had to do a simple breast lump excision, and if the biopsy was positive, then a mastectomy and auxiliary node dissection.†   (source)
  • "She's waking up from anesthesia after getting her biopsy.†   (source)
  • To be sure, he dug out the original biopsy sample, which had been stored on a shelf since 1951.†   (source)
  • When he saw the photographs of her biopsy, he immediately realized her tumor had been misdiagnosed.†   (source)
  • They also published new information, including, for the first time, photos of her cervical biopsies.†   (source)
  • The cells did grow, but when Hyatt biopsied them a few weeks later, they were all cancerous.†   (source)
  • She found cancer in the edge of one of the six biopsies I had taken days ago.†   (source)
  • Possibly it was during this agonal biopsy that her blood squirted on the walls.†   (source)
  • "Marion, you biopsied the ulcer when you 'scoped him, right?"†   (source)
  • A fair amount of the nun's liver traveled up the needle and filled a biopsy syringe.†   (source)
  • You trusted the pathologist to read the biopsies for you?†   (source)
  • The biopsy definitely showed hyperplasia, so we would expect to see the same thing in the breast tissue removed during the lumpectomy.†   (source)
  • The biopsy.†   (source)
  • Every day brought interesting cases and the pleasure of working in a hospital staffed and equipped to the highest current standards in medicine, where he could order a brain biopsy and not have to raise money to pay for it.†   (source)
  • For now, though, the surgeon ordered the same thing he would've if a woman's biopsy had come back with the same results: a lumpectomy.†   (source)
  • On February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henrietta's biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.†   (source)
  • On a separate page he wrote, "Henrietta Lacks … Biopsy of cervical tissue … Tissue given to Dr. George Gey."†   (source)
  • The biopsy … has secured for the patient, Henrietta Lacks as HeLa, an immortality which has now reached 20 years.†   (source)
  • According to Howard Jones, Henrietta got the same care any white patient would have; the biopsy, the radium treatment, and radiation were all standard for the day.†   (source)
  • Then, a few days later, Jones got her biopsy results from the pathology lab: "Epidermoid carcinoma of the cervix, Stage I." All cancers originate from a single cell gone wrong and are categorized based on the type of cell they start from.†   (source)
  • HeLa cells in his lab tested positive for the HPV-18 strain, but zur Hausen requested a sample of Henrietta's original biopsy from Hopkins, so he could be sure her cells hadn't been contaminated with the virus in culture.†   (source)
  • But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn't require such consent.†   (source)
  • TeLinde set out to minimize what he called "unjustifiable hysterectomies" by documenting what wasn't cervical cancer and by urging surgeons to verify smear results with biopsies before operating.†   (source)
  • In 1951, the same year Jones biopsied Henrietta's tumor, researchers from Columbia University reported that the two types of cancer were easily and often confused.†   (source)
  • So he went back to Hopkins and planned a study that would prove them wrong: he and his staff would review all medical records and biopsies from patients who'd been diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer at Hopkins in the past decade, to see how many initially had carcinoma in situ.†   (source)
  • In this particular study—the largest ever done on the relationship between the two cervical cancers—Jones and TeLinde found that 62 percent of women with invasive cancer who'd had earlier biopsies first had carcinoma in situ.†   (source)
  • For a selection of HPV research involving HeLa cells, see Michael Boshart et al., "A New Type of Papillomavirus DNA, Its Presence in Genital Cancer Biopsies and in Cell Lines Derived from Cervical Cancer," EMBO Journal 3, no. 5 (1984); R. A. Jesudasan et al., "Rearrangement of Chromosome Band nqi3 in HeLa Cells," Anticancer Research 14 (1994); N. C. Popescu et al., "Integration Sites of Human Papillomavirus 18 DNA Sequences on HeLa Cell Chromosomes," Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics 44…†   (source)
  • He loved all of it, from going to the airport to pick up a jar that contained a Haitian patient's severed breast and taking it for a biopsy at one of the Harvard teaching hospitals, to pounding computer keys all night so that Farmer or Joia or Jim Kim, another big figure in the organization, would be fully supplied with ammunition to argue the rights and needs of poor patients at high-level meetings that week.†   (source)
  • As the first nun at Ngaliema Hospital, Sister M. E., lay dying, her doctors had decided to give her a so-called agonal biopsy.†   (source)
  • Finally he said, almost under his breath, "Marion, when it's your patient and you are basing your surgery on a biopsy, be sure to look at the slides with the pathologist.†   (source)
  • She pointed to the teetering stack of cardboard slide trays by her microscope—biopsies waiting to be read.†   (source)
  • I took biopsies through the scope.†   (source)
  • Without going into what had been learned about the incidence of lung cancer in hibakusha, perhaps supposing that Dr. Sasaki would know all about such things, Dr. Hattori recommended a biopsy.†   (source)
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