Biopsy

In a recent post on the subreddit ‘Am I the ‘, platform user Lazy_Cheesecake4424 described an incident she had at the beach, igniting a discussion on personal boundaries and empathy.When the woman and a couple of other people she was with took off their clothes, one of them noticed the biopsy scar on her leg and asked if she could cover it.Trying to make peace with her body, the Redditor refused, and the situation got quite uncomfortable.This woman went to the beach with her friends to get a tanShare iconImage credits:…

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Researchers report successful results from a cost-effective experimental cancer-detection system that uses cell-free DNA in blood samples.Research led by UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center tests a cost-effective approach to early-cancer detection from cell-free <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>DNA</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of…

The spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) in its caterpillar stage of life.Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)A man’s suspected case of painful eczema on his left wrist turned out to be something much more unusual. Doctors in China discovered that their patient actually had caterpillar hairs lodged in his arm, likely caught while climbing an apple tree months earlier. Following a steroid injection, the man’s lesions cleared up.The tale of the embedded caterpillar hairs was detailed last month in BMJ Case Reports. The man, said to…

A handheld device being developed at Stevens Institute of Technology can scan skin and detect different types of skin cancer, such as carcinoma (left), squamous cell carcinoma (middle), and actinic keratosis (right). Credit: Stevens Institute of TechnologyTeam at Stevens Institute of Technology uses millimeter-wave imaging to slash the rate of unnecessary biopsies.Skin biopsies are unpleasant: doctors carve away small lumps of tissue for laboratory testing, leaving patients with painful wounds that might take weeks to…