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Genetic testing for breast cancer Revised guidelines

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jul 26, 2022 | Replies (41)

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@callalloo just to clarify the term "biopsy." My HER2+ was from initial biopsy, when the doc takes a very small piece of a possible cancerous area and tests it. My HER2 equivocal/negative was from pathology lab testing after surgery. I just wanted to make sure that was clear since you used the term "post-surgery biopsy." I consider "biopsy" and "post-surgery" testing to be two different things but I can see how they might be used that way. Post surgery though the entire tumor has been taken and made into identifiable "blocks." In my case the blocks all had some different characteristics so in seeking more testing I had to become familiar with each and select the one I most wanted information on.

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I could be using the term incorrectly. I had the initial wide-needle vacuum-assisted* biopsy after the mammo and ultrasound spotted a suspicious area. And then a biopsy of the tumor tissue excised in surgery. I think of the latter as the post-surgery (and more comprehensive) biopsy.