Tag: multifocal
Multifocal breast cancer: The presence of two or more invasive tumors within the same quadrant of the breast. (Multicentric breast cancer is the presence of two or more invasive tumors within different quadrants of the same breast.)Articles
News
- Bilateral mastectomy can improve ER-/PR- breast cancer survival in some cases
- Lobular and ductal breast cancer can be treated similarly based on other important tumor characteristics
- Mucinous breast cancer should be evaluated for multiple tumors before treatment
- Multifocal breast cancer has worse prognosis than single tumors
- Number of tumors should be considered in staging multicentric/multifocal breast cancer
- Pre-operative MRIs find additional disease in 20% of lobular breast cancer patients
- Worse prognosis for breast cancer after lumpectomy with positive margins
Studies
- Breast cancer multifocality, disease extent, and survival
- Clear margins for invasive lobular carcinoma: a surgical challenge
- Conservative surgery in patients with multifocal/multicentric breast cancer
- Does multicentric/multifocal breast cancer differ from unifocal breast cancer? An analysis of survival and contralateral breast cancer incidence
- Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast: A Systematic Review of Incidence, Treatment, and Outcomes
- Effect of the introduction of preoperative MRI scans for lobular cancer in an individual breast unit
- Is breast-conserving therapy a safe option for patients with tumor multicentricity and multifocality?
- Lobular Breast Cancer: Same Survival and Local Control Compared with Ductal Cancer, but Should Both Be Treated the Same Way? Analysis of an Institutional Database over a 10-Year Period
- Mucinous Breast Carcinoma: Occult Multifocality/Multicentricity in a Favorable Disease
- Multicentric and multifocal versus unifocal breast cancer: is the tumor-node-metastasis classification justified?
- Multifocality as a prognostic factor in breast cancer patients registered in Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group (DBCG) 1996-2001
- Residual disease after re-excision lumpectomy for close margins
- Role of MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) versus conventional imaging for breast cancer presurgical staging in young women or with dense breast