Background: Due to the superficial location, suspicious findings of the nipple-areolar complex (NAC) are not amenable to stereotactic or MRI-guided sampling and have historically necessitated surgical biopsy or skin-punch biopsy. There are limited reports of US-guided core biopsy of the nipple (US-CBN).
Objective: We report our nearly 3-year pilot experience with US-CBN at an academic breast imaging center.
Although race is widely accepted as a social construct, the practice of medicine is embedded with the assumption of race as a genetic marker that explains differences in disease prevalence, presentation, and health outcomes and encourages the "correction" for race in interpreting certain test results and values. This false premise, which is fundamental to the theory of race-based medicine, is integrated into clinical practice and has resulted in inequitable care among communities of color. The impact of race-based medicine in radiology might be less apparent but is nonetheless considerable because it affects the entire continuum of radiology practice.
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