For many patients with suspected malignant tumors, many tests, including CT, MRI, etc., are required before treatment. However, in addition to these examinations, doctors often suggest patients to do pathological biopsy again, but many patients worry that doing biopsy will accelerate the spread of cancer cells instead. In fact, although this possibility exists in theory, in fact, taking biopsy specimens is carried out by professional doctors. When doctors do biopsy, they usually put a cannula on the tumor first, then put a needle through the cannula and stick it into the tumor to get the specimen, and then take out the cannula after the needle is pulled out. Because of the protection of the cannula, the possibility of cancer cells spreading is minimal. And even if the cancer cells do spread, the extent of the spread due to biopsy is very small and can be remedied by the doctor in time. In contrast, if no biopsy is performed and surgery is performed directly because of the fear of cancer cell spreading, then the situation is unknown, resulting in the surgery not being done properly and the tumor eventually spreading, the scale of such spreading will be much larger than biopsy and the consequences are very serious. Doctor’s tip: Pathological biopsy of spinal tumors requires very high professional skills of doctors, and not every hospital carries out pathological biopsy of spinal tumors. Therefore, if spine tumor patients need pathological biopsy, they must go to a regular and qualified tertiary hospital for it.