Ted Gansler, MD, MPH, director of medical content for the American Cancer Society and a clinical associate professor at Emory University in Atlanta, where he formerly directed the Cytopathology Division in the department of pathology and laboratory medicine. He is the editor of the American Cancer Society journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Cancer.org
There’s no getting around it: Biopsies can be scary. They’re usually done to confirm (or rule out) the presence of…
