Question: just had a wire localized biopsy microscopic diagnosis..fibroadenoma,aprocrine metaplasis,stromal fibrosis,duct ectasia,focal microcalaifications..what does all of this mean?? can you please make some sense of this for me..Thank You

Question: I would like to understand better this Final Diagnosis:left breast, retroareolar,stereotactic core biopsy:
Ductal carcinoma in-situ,high nuclear,cribriform,solid and comedo types.
Ductal carcinoma in situ is associated with calcifications and necrosis.
Note:Immunostains for strogen receptor and progesterone receptor will be performed and reported in an addendum.
ADDENDUM:ductal carcinoma in-situ is strongly and diffusely positive for strogen and progesterone receptor [...]

Question: I would like to give you background first and then a part of one of the path reports that are in question. I have had 10 surgeries on my breasts in the last 10 years for various cysts, masses, etc. In the past 3 years I have had 5 procedures all in the right [...]

Question:  Hi. I had a reoccurrence with my breast cancer in may of this year, they did a punch biopsy on it and it came back as IDC grade 2, ER and PR positive.  On the punch biopsy pathology report there are no notes on margins it just says Recurrent IDC is multifocal and surrounding [...]

Our course entitled “Ten Diagnoses in Breast Pathology You Cannot Afford to Miss” was accepted for a three-year run beginning in March 2013 at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Annual Meeting.  We will be giving the course in Baltimore in 2013, San Diego in 2014, then Boston in 2015. I am giving [...]

Question: Hello, I went to my family DR. about pain I had started having in in my left breast, if I would push underneath my breast, pain would shoot through to my back. My Dr. Sent me for a diagnostic mammagram, followed by ultrasound, a mass was found deep within the breast tissue [...]

Question: Dear Dr. Lawton,
I had 2 pathologists look at my surgical pathology. It seems that they both saw the same thing, but disagreed on how to call it.
One pathologist called it invasive mammary carcinoma with lobular features, the other called it IDC with single file growth pattern. My single focal tumor showed single file [...]

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Question:  Can you help me understand this report?
Breast Right, biospy:
Infiltrating ductal carcinoma
SBR/Nottingham grade 2/3
Tubular score 2.
Nuclear score 2.
Mitotic score 2 (focal).
No evidence of angiolymphatic invasion
Cancerization og lobules
Ductal carcinoma in situ
Solid, papillary and cribriform patterns
Nuclear grade 2-3
Comedonecrosis present
Microcalcifications associated with in situ malignancy
Immunostains -
Estrogen receptor – diffuse strong positivity in 97% of tumor cell nuclei
Progesterone receptor [...]

Seattle Breast Pathology Consultants has joined forces with another breast pathologist to form Pacific Breast Pathology.  In addition to our existing second opinion consultation service, we will now be providing services to radiologists and surgeons for primary diagnostic interpretation of breast core biopsies and surgical specimens performed in California.  We also will have full service [...]