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Breast Cancers Flashcards

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Low risk factors for Breast Cancer?

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  • Female Gender
  • Menarche by age 11
  • No live births before 35
  • Post menopausal hormone replacement
  • Race: Non-hispanic white females
  • Age (increasing)
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Moderate risk factors for Breast Cancer?

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  1. Personal Hx of breast cancer
  2. Biopsy proven precancerous lesion
  3. Hx of breast cancer in 1st degree relative
  4. Dense breasts
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High risk factors for Breast Cancer?

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  • Hx of chest radiation btwn ages 10-30
  • BRCA gene mutation
  • Li-Fraumeni syndrome
  • Cowden syndrome
  • BRCA gene mutation, Li-Fraumeni syndrome or Cowden syndrome in 1st degree relative
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BRCA gene mutations

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  • Most common hereditary cause of breast cancer

- Tumor suppressor genes on the long arm of chromosome 17

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______ gene increases the risk of developing male breast cancer

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BRCA2

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_____ gene mutation increases the risk of developing breast cancer (80%) and ovarian cancer, usually serous type (50%)

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BRCA1

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BRCA gene breast cancer - Presentation?

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Young woman with a high-grade (poorly differentiated) breast cancer

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Breast Cancer Screening methods

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  • Monthly self breast exam.
  • Annual breast exam by healthcare professional.
  • Annual mammogram starting at age 40.
    • MRI for high-risk patients
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In-situ Breast carcinomas – types?

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  • Ductal carcinoma in-situ
  • Lobular carcinoma in-situ
  • Paget’s disease
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Dx?

  • Almost always detected by mammogram
  • Usually presents as micro calcifications
  • Represents up to 30% of breast cancers
A

Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS)

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Lobular Carcinoma in-situ – Tx?

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Anti-Estrogen

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Dx?

  • Always an incidental finding
  • More common in PREmenopausal women
  • Not associated with calcifications
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Lobular Carcinoma in-Situ (LCIS)

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Dx?

  • A form of in-situ carcinoma, where tumor cells grow within the epidermis of the nipple and/or areola.
  • Present 1-4% of breast carcinoma.
  • Almost always associated with underlying high-grade DCIS or invasive carcinoma
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Paget’s Disease

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Dx?

Presents as an eczematous, red, crusted nipple lesion.

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Paget’s Disease

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How does Paget’s Disease present?

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Presents as an eczematous, red, crusted nipple lesion

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DCIS - Almost always detected by ______

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mammogram

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DCIS - Usually presents as ______

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microcalcifications

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DCIS - how is it characterized prognostically?

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  1. Comedo (grossly, if you squeeze the cut surface of the lesion, the necrotic material is pushed out like comedons) or Non-Comedo
  2. Low, Intermediate, or High Grade — based on degree of nuclear atypic
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Intraductal proliferation with punched out spaces “cookie cutters” – this sub-type of DCIS is referred to as ______ type.

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DCIS: Cribriform type

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What sub-type of DCIS is described below?

The duct is completely filled with a monotonous population of cells; also note associated microcalcification.

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DCIS: Solid type

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How does invasive breast cancer present clinically?

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  • Presents as a mass, either palpable or mammographically detected
  • Central tumors may cause retraction of the nipple
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________ is a high grade carcinoma by default.

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Inflammatory carcinoma

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Inflammatory Carcinoma - characteristics?

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  • Carcinoma that presents with swollen erythematous breast.
  • Invasion of the dermal lymphatics blocks drainage leading to lymphedema, swelling and thickening of skin
  • Tethering of the skin of the breast to the Cooper ligaments mimics an orange peel “peau d’orange”
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Dx?

Carcinoma that presents with swollen erythematous breast

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Inflammatory Carcinoma

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What causes Inflammatory Carcinoma to mimic an orange peel (“peau d’orange”)?

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Tethering of the skin of the breast to the Cooper ligaments

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What causes Inflammatory Carcinoma to present w/ lymphedema & swelling?

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Invasion of the dermal lymphatics blocks drainage leading to lymphedema, swelling and thickening of skin

27
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Invasive Lobular Carcinoma:

a) Usually ____ Grade
b) Usually focal or multifocal?
c) Prognosis similar to ____ of same grade and stage

A

a) Low
b) Multifocal
c) IDC

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What are the most characteristic histologic features of invasive lobular carcinoma?

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  • Infiltration of tumor cells in single files

- They are commonly arranged circumferentially around benign residual ducts in a “targetoid” fashion (arrow)

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Dx?

Small, low grade tumor composed entirely of small tubules, with pointed ends “tear-drop shape”

A

Tubular Carcinoma

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Tubular Carcinoma - Prognosis? Risk of metastases?

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  • Low risk of metastases

- Excellent prognosis

31
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T or F?

In Tubular Carcinoma, the tubules are lined by a single layer of bland tumor cells with hardly any mitotic activity.

32
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Dx?

Composed entirely of aggregates of tumor cells floating in pools of mucin.

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Mucinous (Colloid) Carcinoma

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Mucinous (Colloid) Carcinoma:

a) ____- Grade tumor
b) Demographic?
c) Prognosis?

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a) Low-grade tumor
b) Elderly women
c) Good prognosis

(Composed entirely of aggregates of tumor cells floating in pools of mucin)

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Medullary CA:

a) Gross appearance?
b) Histology?
c) Genetics?

A

a) Sharply-circumscribed, soft fleshy tumor
b) Malignant cells admixed with intense lymphocytic infiltration.
c) More common in BRCA1 carriers

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________ typically has a well-circumscribed pushing (as opposed to infiltrating) border and syncytial sheets of tumor cells in a stroma rich in lymphocytes and plasma cells.

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Medullary carcinoma

36
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Dx?

Adenocarcinoma but not forming glands!

A

Metaplastic CA

Metaplastic component may be squamous, spindle cells, fibroblasts, bone, cartilage, etc…

37
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Metaplastic CA:

______ outcome than other types

38
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What are the Modified Bloom-Richardson Criteria for tumor prognosis?

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  1. % of tubule formation
  2. Degree of nuclear atypic
  3. # of mitotic figures in 10HPF

Low grade = More tubules, less nuclear atypia, fewer MF

The higher the grade, the worse the prognosis

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How is tumor “Stage” determined?

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TNM
T = Tumor Size.
N = lymph Node metastases
M = distant Metastases

Rule #1: Inflammatory carcinoma is considered T4
Rule #2: Distant metastases is stage IV

40
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For TNM staging, inflammatory carcinoma is considered ____.

41
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The most important prognostic factor for Breast cancer?

A

Axillary Lymph Node metastases

42
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Molecular Classification - 3 classifications & prognosis of each?

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  1. Luminal-type Carcinomas express Estrogen and have the BEST prognosis.
  2. Her2-type cancers do not express ER or PR but show Her2-gene amplification. They have a BAD prognosis
  3. Basal-like breast cancer are negative for all 3 markers & have the WORST prognosis
    (more common in African-American women)
43
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What are “Triple Negative” breast cancers?

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Basal-like breast cancers, which are negative for all 3 markers (ER, PR, & HER-2).
Of the 3 molecular classifications, these have the WORST prognosis.

43
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What are “Triple Negative” breast cancers?

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Basal-like breast cancers, which are negative for all 3 markers (ER, PR, & HER-2).
Of the 3 molecular classifications, these have the WORST prognosis.

44
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Pathologic features of Luminal-type-A breast cancers?

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  • WD IDC
  • Lobular cA
  • Tubular CA
  • Mucinous CA
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Pathologic features of Luminal-type-B breast cancers?

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  • MD IDC

- Lobular CA

46
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Pathologic features of Basal-like breast cancers?

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  • Poorly-differentiated IDC
  • BRCA1- assoc
  • African-American women
47
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Pathologic features of Basal-like breast cancers?

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  • Poorly-differentiated IDC
  • BRCA1- assoc
  • African-American women
48
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Luminal Type A breast cancer – Tx?

49
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Luminal Type B breast cancer – Tx?

50
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Basal-like breast cancer – Tx?

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Chemotherapy

51
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Basal-like breast cancer – Tx?

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Chemotherapy

52
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Trastuzumab - MOA?

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Monoclonal antibody to HER-2 receptors

- binds receptor on tumor cells to induce an antigen-antibody-reaction leading to cytotoxicity of tumor cells.

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