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If a complicated breast cyst (no solid component inside cyst) is aspirated & confirmed cancerous. no nodes. what are the treatment options? surgery?
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Excisional biopsy: The next step is to excise the collapsed cyst wall and some surrounding breast tissue to confirm that the cancerous fluid is indeed from that source. Moreover, the Pathologist will now have a "tissue" diagnosis to lend a microscopic analysis of the type of cancer and the best ways to treat it.
Answered 12/20/2016
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