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Surgery for brain tumor
Why biopsy is done before doing surgery for brain tumor? Is it a test for finding cancer?. And also clarify the consequences of brain surgery in future. The patient is 24 year old lady.
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Biopsy is an histological study of your tissue to find out different types of disease like malignancy, carcinoma, tumour cells and other abnormalities of the organ.
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