How to Use biopsy in a Sentence

biopsy

noun
  • Maya was put through tests and a biopsy was done on her liver.
    — Washington Post, 9 July 2019
  • After a biopsy, the truth was clear.
    — Mical Roy, Health, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Yuengling had a few things on her mind when signing up for the biopsy.
    — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And the scare turned out to be nothing — the biopsy came back clear.
    — Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2021
  • These tests include patch tests, blood tests, and skin biopsies.
    — Susan Bard, Verywell Health, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The team takes blood samples and urine, as well as fat and skin biopsies.
    — Francesca Gilbard, NBC news, 10 July 2025
  • Be present for my wife in the days leading up to her kidney biopsy.
    — Nick Fuller Googins, Men's Health, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That pushed her to give me a CT scan of my chest and a biopsy.
    — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 19 June 2024
  • Thinking the spot on his ear could be basal cell again, a biopsy was taken.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The biopsy came back as Stage IA melanoma.
    — Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
  • And if all these were normal, the next step would be a bone-marrow biopsy.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Younger women tend to have denser breasts, which can result in more biopsies.
    — Christina Ruffini, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Six moles were removed from his back, chest, and forehead for biopsy.
    — Zach Berman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Others had plastic beads emerge from their biopsy sites.
    — Annika Inampudi, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • The doctor may want to take a biopsy of an abnormal area on the skin.
    — Anne Grauel, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 15 May 2021
  • Most of the patients in the new study shouldn’t have even had a biopsy, Scharpf wrote.
    — Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The next day, a doctor called with the results of her kidney biopsy.
    — The Philadelphia Inquirer, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2020
  • There are some types of cancers where a biopsy has a higher risk of causing spread.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 July 2021
  • At the same time, her doctor back home has concerns about a recent biopsy.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • If tumors are present, doctors will do a biopsy to look for biomarkers.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The biopsy came back positive for melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
    — Jon Becker, The Mercury News, 14 June 2019
  • Yes, the organ had looked diseased, but a biopsy would need to confirm that.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • If now this biopsy comes back, not great, the next step would be a hysterectomy.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 24 Jan. 2026
  • For the biopsy, she was placed in stirrups and given a spinal epidural to numb the area.
    — Rachel E. Gross, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
  • After the biopsy, Sylvia soon learned that doctors had found a melanoma.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 18 Apr. 2022
  • In the recovery room, a quick X-ray showed that the biopsy had gone as planned.
    — Jeffrey E. Poehlmann, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
  • Of these patients, 41 had biopsies.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The lump turned into a scan, and the scan that turned into a biopsy–no–three biopsies.
    — Jessica Boudreaux, SPIN, 2 June 2022
  • He was scheduled for a biopsy and a spinal tap—last-ditch efforts to find the source of his illness.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Only in about 1% of cases, when a nodule grows or changes, is a biopsy done.
    — Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026

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