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These are interesting questions. If biopsy was totally benign you'd be right. But there are complications and rarely serious complications of breast biopsy. "How bad / invasive is getting a biopsy?" perhaps you are willing to accept those risks, but you have to also accept the risk that you are getting treated for cancer you don't have. Pathology isn't perfect [0]. Should we invest more in getting better results? Yes, and we are. But, we also have to come up with a risk/benefits strategy for the technology we have now for the patients we have now. Everything in medicine is risk/benefit because our data and our interpretation of that data isn't perfect. 0: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2203798 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2203798