Silver Book Fact
If the 1 million surgical breast biopsies performed annually were instead performed using image-guided needle core biopsy, the total savings could be $1.6 billion a year.
Burkhardt J, Sunshine J. Core-Needle and Surgical Breast Biopsy: Comparison of three methods of assessing cost. Radiology. 1999; 212: 181-8. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiology.212.1.r99jl46181