Performing a needle biopsy without debulking the tumor may put a patient at risk for seeding cells that can spread and metastasize. — Whalespan
Performing a needle biopsy without debulking the tumor may put a patient at risk for seeding cells that can spread and metastasize.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“just to say let's look at this how long after the needle biopsy do you put that patient at risk for possibly ceding a cell that gets to a lymph node that then can spread out and later that you get brain metastases liver metastases or whatever else can happen from these cancers”