Breast - Dobson Flashcards
Small, irregular, numerous, clustered calcifications on mammography indicate what?
DCIS
Paget disease of the breast ER/HER2 profile?
Have what?
ER-, HER2+
Almost all have underlying cancer
What has the morphology of monomorphic proliferation of regularly spaced cells w/cribriform spaces, only partially fills involved ducts?
Atypical ductal hyperplasia
What presents w/button like subareolar enlargement and is more common in puberty or the very old?
What else?
Gynecomastia
B/l
What tumor has equal occurence in men and women?
Myofibroblastoma
What is used to inhibit HER2?
Trastuzumab
What has the morphology of green-brown nipple discharge w/plasma cells on biopsy and lipid-laden macrophages?
Duct ectasia
What tumor is sporadic or associated w/radiation or lymphedema, mean age of 35, and is high grade?
Prognosis?
Angiosarcoma
Poor
Women receiving cyclosporin A after a renal transplant may get what?
Fibroadenoma
What Nottingham score?
some tubule, solid clusters or single infiltrate, mitotic figures present
2
Phyllodes tumor presents in whom?
What chromosome mutation?
What mutation is more aggressive type?
Women in 60s, palpable mass
GOF ch. 1
HOXB13
Least favorable breast cancer subtype?
Poorly diff, ER-and/or HER2+
What morphology shows uniform population of cells w/oval or round nuclei, mucin+ signet ring cells and lack of E-cadherin?
RF for what?
LCIS
Invasive carcinoma, BOTH breasts
What presents w/an erythematous breast that is painful, and a fever is present?
From what?
Acute mastitis
Pregnancy and breast feeding
HER2-, ER- occurs in what pts?
Metastases to where?
Relapse pattern?
Response to chemo?
Young women, AA and Hispanics, BRCA1 mutation
Bone, viscera, brain
Very short, < 5 years
30%
HER2+, ER-/+ occurs in what pts?
Metastases to where?
Relapse pattern?
Response to chemo?
Young women, non-white women, TP53 mutation carriers (ER+)
Bone, visceral, brain
Short
ER+ –> 15%
ER- –> 30%
AJCC stage 0?
DCIS or LCIS
Basal like sporadic tumors often have mutation?
LOF TP53
What drugs cause gynecomastia?
Some Drugs Create Awesome Knockers
Spironolactone Digoxin Cimetidine Alcohol Ketoconazole
Also Estrogens/hormones
Where and how is breast cancer in men described?
Avg age?
Near the nipple, hard nontender mass, more involvement of LNs
60-70
What morphology describes bulbous, leaf-like protrusions w/higher cellularity, higher mitotic rate, and nuclear pleomorphism?
What is contraindicated?
Phyllodes tumor
Axillary LN dissection
What stage AJCC?
Invasive carcinoma > 2cm w/ 1-3(+) LNs OR
Invasive < or equal to 5 cm w/ 0-3(+) LNs?
Stage II
What is a dramatic presentation of metastasis from the breast?
Carcinoma en cuirasse
What ethnic group has the highest incidence of breast cancer?
Highest mortality?
White
AA’s
Describe the tumor progression cycle with an ER+, TP53 mutation
HER2 amplification –> atypical apocrine adenosis –> DCIS –> HER2 enriched cancer
Gynecomastia may be due to what conditions?
Liver disease Drugs Decreased testosterone XXY Testicular neoplasms
Prognosis of metaplastic or micropapillary carcinoma?
Poor
Most favorable breast cancer subtype?
Well diff, ER+, HER2-, low proliferation
ER+, HER2- low proliferation occurs in what pts?
Metastases to where?
Relapse pattern?
Response to chemo?
Older women, and men
Bone, visceral, brain
Late
< 10%
What carcinoma has morphology of soft, rubbery, pale gray-blue gelatin in small cluster and islands of mucin.
Mucinous (colloid) carcinoma
AJCC stage if distant metastases present?
4
When does fibroadenoma present?
Diagnose how?
Morphology?
Women 20s-30s, multiple and b/l
Palpable mass or mammographic density
Well-circumscribed, rubbery, white nodules
What is the most common type of breast cancer to present as an occult primary?
Metastases to where?
Lobular carcinoma
Peritoneum/retroperitoneum
Leptomeninges
GI
Ovary and uterus
Spontaneous unilateral discharge worrisome for what in women over 60?
Cancer