I know that Biopsy is the standard procedure to identify the type of the tumor and also if that is malignant or not. And depending on this info the medication is determined. So far so good.
However either malignant or not, if patient wants the tumor to be removed, it will be eventually removed with an operation (assuming that it is an easy to remove one, one with low risk etc). A biopsy could still be done on the removed tumor (which is done anyway) and medication could be determined accordingly.
What is the benefit to Operator Doc of having a biopsy results before the OP? Would that change during the OP? How important is that to the operations success?
Thanks in advance.
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I will add there are some “excisional biopsies” where the biopsy is the resection. For example, some skin cancers and breast masses.
As others have said, other biopsies are done when a tissue diagnosis is needed to determine the presurgical (eg neoadjuvant chemotherapy) and surgical plan.
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