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[quote=Anonymous][quote](HealthDay News) -- As many as one of every four breast tissue biopsies tested for cancer may have been incorrectly diagnosed by pathologists taking part in a study to test their skills.

The pathologists did well at identifying invasive breast cancer, but they struggled with spotting whether abnormal cells in a tissue sample might increase a woman's future cancer risk. This may mean that some women are being treated too aggressively, the researchers noted.

Overall, individual pathologists peering at breast cells through a microscope disagreed about 25 percent of the time with an expert pathology panel's interpretation of the same glass slides.

These bad calls could have serious consequences for some of the 1.6 million American women who undergo a breast biopsy each year, the researchers added.

The accurate diagnosis of cancer hinges on pathologists' microscopic examination of tissue samples from patients, explained study author Dr. Joann Elmore, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Women with a wrongly interpreted biopsy might undergo unnecessary surgery or radiation therapy, receive unwarranted MRIs or mammograms, or spend many anxious years fretting that they are at increased risk for cancer when they actually are not, Elmore said.[/quote]
http://www.wfmj.com/story/28542700/study-questions-accuracy-of-many-breast-cancer-biopsies
Well this is not good.[/quote]

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