Sentences with phrase «lobular carcinoma in»
Breast Cancer — Breast cancer in young women (ages 18 - 45), pregnancy - associated breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, lobular carcinoma in situ, invasive ductal carcinoma, invasive lobular carcinoma
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Prime examples are ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS).
While ductal carcinoma in situ develops in the duct's lining of the breasts, lobular carcinoma in situ develops in the lobules — the parts of the breast tissue that is responsible for the production of milk.
Women are generally in this group if they have multiple cases of breast or ovarian cancer in the family, a positive result on the BRCA breast cancer gene - mutation test, a personal history of the disease, or a biopsy showing atypia or lobular carcinoma in situ.
Lobular carcinoma in situ, or LCIS, is not a cancer, but an overgrowth of cells that occurs in the milk - producing lobules.
Breast Cancer — Breast cancer in young women (ages 18 - 45), pregnancy - associated breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, lobular carcinoma in situ, invasive ductal carcinoma, invasive lobular carcinoma
Not exact matches
Tobin NP, Lundgren KL, Conway C, Anagnostaki L, Costello S. Automated image analysis of Cyclin D1 protein expression in invasive lobular breast carcinoma provides independent prognostic information.
Ultrasound was found to be inferior for detecting axillary node metastasis in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma compared with invasive ductal carcinoma.
In certain tumor groups, subtypes have been included, e.g. breast cancer includes both ductal and lobular cancer, lung cancer includes both squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma and liver cancer includes both hepatocellular and cholangiocellular carcinoma etc..
Invasive lobular carcinoma, or ILC, is an uncommon type of breast cancer that begins in the milk - producing lobule cells and invades (spreads) deeper into the breast tissue.
But when her doctor told her that the type of tumor she had — invasive lobular carcinoma — slightly increased her risk of developing cancer in the unaffected breast, she decided to have a double mastectomy and sacrifice her ability to breast - feed.
Most breast cancers originate in the milk ducts or lobes and are called ductal carcinoma or lobular carcinoma, respectively.