Breast
Benign and proliferative lesions, carcinomas, stromal tumours and the male breast.
16 pages
Lesion
- Atypical breast hyperplasia and cancer riskAtypical hyperplasia looks like a tiny low-grade cancer that has not filled its space; it…
- Ductal carcinoma in situ and Paget disease of the nippleDCIS is breast cancer still inside the ducts, usually found as calcifications on a mammogram…
- Inflammatory breast lesionsBreast inflammation ranges from the infection of breastfeeding to lesions that feel and look…
- Interlobular stromal lesions and other breast malignanciesThe fatty and fibrous tissue between lobules makes the same tumours as soft tissue elsewhere…
- Invasive breast carcinoma of no special typeThe usual breast cancer: a hard, gritty, irregular lump that can pull in the skin or nipple and…
- Invasive breast carcinoma: special typesSome breast cancers have a distinctive pattern that predicts their behaviour: some are kinder…
- Lobular carcinoma in situLCIS is an invisible, often bilateral change in the lobules found by chance; it marks a high…
- Nonproliferative breast changes (fibrocystic)Lumpy breasts with cysts are so common they are almost normal; these changes do not raise the…
- Proliferative breast disease without atypiaBenign growths of breast cells that are crowded but not abnormal; they slightly raise cancer…
- The male breast: gynecomastia and male breast cancerA swollen male breast is usually gynecomastia from a hormone imbalance; breast cancer in men is…
- Tumours of the intralobular stroma: fibroadenoma vs phyllodes tumourBoth tumours grow from the stroma around the lobules
Topic
- Breast cancer: prognostic factors and stagingStage tells how far a breast cancer has gone; its receptors tell which treatments will work
- Breast cancer: risk factorsBreast cancer is the most common cancer in women; the biggest risks are being female and getting…
- Breast disease: presentations and developmental anomaliesMost breast complaints are benign, but a few signs, a new lump in an older woman, bloody…
Mechanism
- Familial breast cancer: BRCA1, BRCA2 and othersA minority of breast cancers come from an inherited faulty gene, most often BRCA1 or BRCA2; they…
- Sporadic breast cancer: molecular subtypesMost breast cancers are not inherited
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