How long will it take to receive the results of a lung biopsy?

How long will it take to receive the results of a lung biopsy?

Generally after getting a lung biopsy by a number of modalities, whether it be surgical, or whether it be non-invasive or less invasive ways of getting a diagnosis, it will take several days for the pathologist to make a diagnosis. Although there is, what's called, a "frozen section analysis", where the pathologist can take a quick look, and make a diagnosis of whether it's cancer or not and this is often very accurate. However, the type of cancer requires further studies, and these things may include things like immunohistochemistry, so further work needs to be done, and as a result it can take several days for the pathologist to make a final determination that you have lung cancer.