THE MOSS REPORTS Tens of thousands of needle biopsies are performed each year in the US alone, and the procedure is universally assumed to be safe and reliable. Yet there is evidence to suggest that needle biopsy may not be as harmless or uncomplicated a procedure as once thought. In fact, it may in some cases inadvertently cause cancer cells to break away from a tumor, thus enabling spread beyond the immediate tumor area. Monitoring the world of cancer diagnosis and treatment has been my life's work. The fruit of my thirty-year involvement in this field is The...