High Risk and Selected Benign Breast Lesions on Core Biopsy: Excision Vs Surveillance?

01/09/2022 22 min
High Risk and Selected Benign Breast Lesions on Core Biopsy: Excision Vs Surveillance?

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Episode Synopsis

The vast majority of image-detected breast abnormalities are currently diagnosed by percutaneous core needle biopsy (CNB). While management of frankly malignant lesions diagnosed by CNB is now well-defined, there is less consensus on the optimal management of high-risk and selected benign lesions diagnosed by CNB. In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Calhoun from University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill eloquently discusses the evidence for and against immediate excision of such lesions.