New study suggest doctors struggle to interpret breast biopsies

WAUSAU - A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests doctors struggle to accurately interpret breast biopsies.

The study says pathologists misdiagnosed normal breast tissue 13 percent of the time.

However, some doctors think the study results might not be so alarming. Dr. Edgar Betancourt, from Associates in Pathology in Wausau, says recent technological advances have made the process of interpreting a biopsy more subtle and complicated.

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