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CA Cancer J Clin 1963; 13:214-215
doi: 10.3322/canjclin.13.6.214
© 1963 American Cancer Society
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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 13, 214-215, Copyright © 1963 by American Cancer Society

When to Biopsy Lumps in the Breast

R. Cameron Harrison M.D.1

1 Professor of Surgery at the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Thus, the important first step in the management of a lump in the breast is to separate the true mass from the false. A true mass requires biopsy under general anesthesia and frozen section. The exception is the cyst, which can be aspirated in the office under local anesthetic.






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