You're looking at her open lung biopsy.

You do an open lung biopsy when you've got no other options.

The most commonly employed form of excision is simple cutting (46.3 per cent), followed by the more severe form (24.4 per cent).

Two weeks after my diagnosis, a biopsy confirmed I had a seven inch osteosarcoma in my left femur.

The Unit against Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (CPTAFE) runs awareness campaigns on female excision and other degrading practices.

We took 90 men who had biopsy proven prostate cancer and who had elected, for reasons unrelated to the study, not to have surgery.

National surveys on female genital mutilation in Haute Guinée Moyenne Guinée and in Guinée Forestière Basse Guinée, which showed that 96.4 per cent of women surveyed had undergone excision.

Periodically, this drill, like a biopsy needle, plunges thousands of feet deep into the ice to extract a marrow of gases and isotopes for analysis.

I had found the lump almost two weeks earlier, while at a conference in South Africa. I returned home early to have a biopsy, but the pathology lab was achingly slow days passed with no word.

Or imagine a simple and inexpensive urine test that can diagnose cancer, eliminating the need for a surgical biopsy. And, when cancer treatment is needed, its toxic punch hits cancer cells selectively, with far fewer damaging side effects.

Screening for prostate cancer, too, requires a blood test the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test. Elevated PSA levels would suggest the presence of prostate cancer, even if no physical abnormalities were detected, so a tissue biopsy would be conducted.