All 16 Uses
biopsy
in
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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- She knew about harvesting tobacco and butchering a pig, but she'd never heard the words cervix or biopsy.†
Chpt 1.1 *biopsy = removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3biopsies = removals and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of diseases
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3
- 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.†
Chpt 1.3
- On February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henrietta's biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.†
Chpt 1.3biopsy = removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- On a separate page he wrote, "Henrietta Lacks ...Biopsy of cervical tissue ...Tissue given to Dr. George Gey."†
Chpt 1.3
- 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.†
Chpt 1.8
- The cells did grow, but when Hyatt biopsied them a few weeks later, they were all cancerous.†
Chpt 2.18biopsied = removed and examined tissue or fluid from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- When he saw the photographs of her biopsy, he immediately realized her tumor had been misdiagnosed.†
Chpt 2.22biopsy = removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- To be sure, he dug out the original biopsy sample, which had been stored on a shelf since 1951.†
Chpt 2.22
- 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.†
Chpt 2.22biopsied = removed and examined tissue or fluid from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- The biopsy ...has secured for the patient, Henrietta Lacks as HeLa, an immortality which has now reached 20 years.†
Chpt 2.22biopsy = removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- 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.†
Chpt 3.27
- She's waking up from anesthesia after getting her biopsy.†
Chpt 3.34
- But storing tissues from diagnostic procedures like, say, mole biopsies, and using them in future research doesn't require such consent.†
Chpt Aft.biopsies = removals and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of diseases
Definitions:
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(1)
(biopsy) removal and examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)