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07-11-2011 16:34 Click Here To Get Dr. Harness' 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor http://www.breastcanceranswers.com Breast Cancer Answers is a social media show where viewers submit a question and get the answer from an expert. Submit your question now at, ?www.breastcanceranswers.com In this clip, Jay Harness, MD, FACS explains what a pathologist does. A pathologist is a critical and key member of the team that treats breast cancer. Pathologists are physicians. They have been trained to dissect and analyze tissue that's been removed from the body or blood, for that matter. Pathologists are critical in breast cancer, and having expert pathologist in breast cancer is very, very important because there are many subtleties in the diagnosis of breast cancer, and so having a well-trained pathologist is important. In the operating room everyday, I am working with a pathologist. I may send a lump over for the pathologist to visually look at and tell me that the tissue around the lump is okay. Pathologists are involved when I am operating and doing frozen sections, which is a wrap and analysis of lymph nodes, and let me know if they are involved or not. The final pathology report is what's key in the final staging of breast cancer. So is my breast cancer stage-1, or stage-2, or whatever it is, and determining the extent of the breast cancer within the breast is a critical duty of the pathologist and the physician's assistants who work with pathologists. This information should not be relied ...

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