Breast concerns are one of the major issues in a woman's health. As many breast diseases and disorders are on a rise, regular tests and check-ups have become vital for women's health welfare.

Breast diseases are mostly non-Cancerous and self-breast examinations promote awareness in case of any abnormality. If there seems to be any disorder underlining an apparent deformed breast structure or any other abnormality, breast biopsy is the way out. Every woman winces at the name of breast biopsy as it always holds an idea of a latent breast Cancer but it is a mere myth. Breast biopsy is just like a general check up but especially for breasts.

Firstly, biopsy is a medical procedure wherein the cells or tissues are removed for examination to arrive at the result of abnormality or normalcy of health. It is chemically analyzed or examined microscopically and there are various ways to do a biopsy.

Breast biopsy is done when there is a suspicion of some abnormality and the type of biopsy carried out depends on location, shape, size, appearance and characteristics of the abnormality. Advanced medical services now have various ways of breast biopsies like fine needle aspirations, core needle biopsies, vacuum assisted biopsies, direct and frontal biopsies and open surgical biopsies.

Fine needle aspirations procedure uses fine needle and syringe and takes sample fluid from the breast cyst or cells in a cluster from a solid mass for pathologic analysis. The core needle biopsy removes solid tissue samples with a hollow core needle. It is also done under image-guidance using stereotactic mammography, MRI or ultrasound. Vacuum assisted biopsy is similar to core needle except that it uses a vacuum technique to collect the tissue samples. This category also includes automated rotational core devices. The unique direct frontal system of tissue acquisition is safe and efficient even for macrobiopsy for early breast Cancer detection. The open surgical biopsy includes the removal of a large mass or bump with an incision but nowadays it is mostly unused and people go for less invasive methods.

A Breast biopsy can detect many disorders and it does not always must to be breast Cancer. The lump can either be benign or malignant or non-Cancerous. Malignant growth may have disorders like inflammatory and colloid carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, lobular or infiltrating ductal carcinoma, sarcoma or medullar or circumscribed carcinoma while benign growth may have resulting disorders like fat necrosis, cyst, adenofibroma or papilloma.