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Biopsy: Doctors diagnose breast cancer by taking a history and doing a physical exam and looking at mammograms and breast ultrasounds the tissue diagnosis is made after a biopsy which takes a small piece of a mass and examines it under a microscope.
Answered 1/24/2014
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