Biopsy

WAILEA, Hawaii — New research using liquid biopsy presents a new opportunity for treating retinoblastoma.

Patients undergoing bone marrow biopsy would respond favorably to interventions intended to improve their experience, according to study results presented at TCT Meetings Digital Experience.

Advanced imaging and biopsy of the synovium have not led clinicians to “the promised land” in terms of guiding treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.

Strategies must be implemented to ensure individuals receive appropriate cancer screening and care amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to studies presented at American Association for Cancer Research Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer.

Obtaining research kidney biopsy cores in patients with diabetes was safe with no clear evidence of a negative impact, according to findings from a recently published study.

Reidunn Edelmann, PhD, has always been interested in blood vessels.

A combined screening approach of systematic and MRI-targeted biopsy improved detection of all prostate cancers among men with MRI-visible lesions, according to results of a prospective study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

ATLANTA — Tocilizumab is more effective than rituximab at achieving significant reductions in disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis who demonstrate low B-cell levels in synovial tissue and are unresponsive to conventional synthetic DMARDs or TNF inhibitors, according to a presenter at ACR/ARP 2019.

New data demonstrating good agreement between transbronchial lung cryobiopsy and surgical lung biopsy support the use of the technology as an alternative to surgical biopsy for patients requiring lung tissue for a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.