"In our study, we showed that fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy material can be a good source for next-generation sequencing (NGS) for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. Based on these ...

Most fine-needle aspiration procedures for thyroid nodules can be safely delayed for 6 months or longer during the COVID-19 pandemic; data show such delays do not influence the long-term prognosis for ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is currently performed on a routine basis at many endoscopic centers and it is evident that this procedure has a major impact on ...

Development of a National Cancer Registry in a Low Resourced Country: The Case of Kenya National Cancer Registry Programme Background: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer ...

Thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNA)-cytology is widely used for the preoperative characterisation of thyroid nodules but this task is difficult for follicular lesions, which often remain ...

AUSTIN -- Repeat fine needle aspiration (FNA) allowed most cases of thyroid nodules initially identified as atypia of undetermined significance/follicular lesion of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a series of thyroid nodules from adults in Ireland, the false-negative rate of an initial benign thyroid fine ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) is used for the cytologic evaluation of lymphoid tissue from patients with (unknown) lymphadenopathy; however, because only a limited ...

Diagnostic microRNA serum profile in pancreatic cancer. Background: Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided biopsy allows cytologic and/or histologic diagnosis of lesions within or adjacent to the ...

In recent years, small volume biopsies have been increasingly utilized for diagnosis of tumors in both primary and recurrent settings. Concomitantly, the numbers of ancillary studies for ...

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel technology that could sensitively and accurately detect and classify cancer cells, as well as determine the ...

Different electronic linear scanning endoscopes are commercially available for EUS-FNA ( Table 1). Some of these devices have an elevator that should facilitate the positioning of the needle. When ...