[thewillowcat]

For example, many kinds of biopsy can result in serious infection or other surgical complications.

[red-iron-pine]

presumably if they're seeing a cancer worthy of a biopsy the risk justifies cutting in there and checking

yeah there is a risk you get an infection but pancreatic cancer will kill you dead, and is no joke.

[bluGill]

Is it cancer or just a 'cyst'? I'm not MD but my understanding is we often cannot tell without the biopsy but mostly it isn't cancer. Of course this is a generic discussion which could go either way depending on where they find something.