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10 Cards in this Set
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What type of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ is most likley to produce microcalcifications?
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Comedocarcinoma (microcalcifications form at points of central necrosis)
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What type of breast cancer is associated with schirrhous mass(es), nipple retraction, peau d'orange, and dimpling?
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Invasive ductal carcinoma
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Why is lobular carcinoma so hard to see on mammography and what is the recommendation during treatment?
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Doesn't create calcifications or masses d/t its single file arrangement of cells
B/L mastectomy is recommended d/t likelihood that it will emerge in other breast |
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What type of consistency does invasive lobular carcinoma cause in the breast?
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Rubbery consistency
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What is Paget's dz of the nipple?
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involvement of epidermis by malignant cells that have marched out of the nipple ducts
Resembles severely chapped lips with oozing and ulcers and fissures |
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What type of patient is most likely to get medullary carcinoma?
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Young women with a BRCA 1 gene mutation causes a soft, fleshy consistency of the breast
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What type of patient is most likely to get colloid (mucinous) carcinoma?
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Older women (esp 70-80s) causing a gelatinous consistency and is receptor positive
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When performing mammography, what is a tubular carcinoma going to look like?
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Conspicuously spiculated multifocal mass that is either U/L or B/L in a woman in her late 40s
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What is usually seen in lobular carcinoma with regard to changes in breast tissue?
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Architectural distortion
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Do + estrogen/progesterone receptors convey a better or worse prognosis in breast cancer?
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Slightly better
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