red blood cells carry hemoglobin an iron rich protein that attaches to oxygen in the lungs and carries it to tissues throughout the body anemia occurs when you do not have enough red blood cells or when your red blood cells do not function properlyron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia it happens when you do not have enough iron in your body iron deficiency is usually due to blood loss but may occasionally be due to poor absorption of iron
A straightforward, uncomplicated result can often be given within 2 to 3 days after the biopsy. A more complicated result can take 7 to 10 days if more testing on the tissue is needed. Talk with your doctor about how you will receive the results of your biopsy and who will explain these results to you.
The surgery took about 7 hours. The tumor was inoperable but they removed an outcropping to the left of my brain stem. The surgeon told my wife while I was in recovery that the biopsy would take about 2 or 3 days to analyze but he felt it was a glioblastoma grade 3. Judging by what he could see and by my symptoms.