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Breast Cancer (Expert Forum)
benign to malignant?
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Cleveland - OH
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Doctor's Answer
by Cleveland Clinic, Feb 23, 2009 12:46PM
, Feb 23, 2009 12:46PM
Dear mazami: The question in this situation is whether the cells in the FNA were representative of the lump. In other words, did the biopsy include enough cells to get a representative sample of the lump. The other question is whether this is the same lump or whether there is something about it that changed or is it a different lump. A malignant cell is a cell that has mutated or changed over time in such a way that it no longer has the properties of a benign cell.
