u/Fine-Violinist-2524

My mom has a large 10 cm x 10 cm mass on her liver... she doesn't want chemo or general radiation (but is open to immunotherapy and Y-90... if it was smaller, her preference was to do histotripsy). However, positive ID via biopsy has proved elusive because they keep pulling necrotic tissue. HCC is diagnosable through MRI but they said it looked possibly mixed, and treatment depends on what it is (so basically they need the biopsy to treat). Has anybody experienced this? Any advice? Should we seek a different hospital to the biopsy? I hate dragging her to the hospital for multiple biopsies, she's very weak and physically disabled.

Thank you!