Hospital offers less-invasive breast biopsies

DANVILLE – Provena United Samaritans Medical Center has begun using a minimally invasive biopsy procedure to diagnose possible breast cancer.

The hospital is now using a vacuum-assisted core needle device that allows for more accurate diagnosis than other needle biopsy procedures provide. And because the procedure requires only a quarter-inch incision in the breast and can be done under local anesthesia, patients recover faster and with less pain and scarring than those undergoing a surgical biopsy, hospital officials said.

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