Sentences with phrase «called ductal»

Most breast cancers originate in the milk ducts or lobes and are called ductal carcinoma or lobular carcinoma, respectively.

Medical opinion also varies on how the kind of breast cancer Lee had, a noninvasive form called ductal carcinoma in situ, should be treated, but Lee is adamant about early mammograms and aggressive treatment.

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This extra breast tissue is called accessory (or supernumerary) breast tissue and is not connected to the main ductal network of the breast.

The tissue, called the stroma, includes fat cells, or adipocytes, that provide padding; fibroblasts, which make the framework for tissue; pericytes in blood vessels, which are contractile cells that help regulate blood pressure; as well as myoepithelial cells comprising the outer layer of the ductal system through which milk flows.

It pertains specifically to cells involved in the most common form of pancreatic cancer, called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma or PDA.

These were men with what's called PIN, which is like the prostate equivalent of ductal carcinoma in situ in the breast — an early stage of cancer.

These include growths arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growths that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia), and growths due to expansion of the ducts which take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

They include those arising from the epithelium that normally produces milk (lobular or epithelial hyperplasia, occasionally called adenosis), growth that also include the connective tissue between the glands (fibroadenomatous change or fibroepithelial hyperplasia) and growths due to expansion of the ducts that take the milk to the teats (cystic ducts, ductal ectasia or hyperplasia).

Coils have traditionally been used to close PDAs, however in the last decade, a new device called the Amplatz Canine Ductal Occluder (ACDO) has become available.