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Describe the 2 kinds of normal Stromal Tissue in the breast.

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Intralobular - responsive to hormonal influences = stromal and edematous

  • important for breast lesions

Interlobular - regular CT and fat like everywhere else in the body

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What are the two types of cells seen in ducts/lobules of the breast?

What are markers for each type?

which one is MORE helpful in determining if there is invasive BC or not?

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Luminal cells -

  • function for milk production and conduits in the ducts
  • ER/PR markers in malignancy

Myoepithleial cells -

  • function for contraction during milk ejection

INVASION = LOSS OF MYOEPITHELIAL CELLS

  • Markers are p53, Heavy chain myosin, actin
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What changes happen in lctation?

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increased number and size of acini

Bubble presentation on lactation and vacuolization

Regress afterwards but not completely

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breast changes in aging?

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Fibrous tissue replaced by fat - that’s why it’s easier to see in mammograms of old women

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What is the most common breast symptom?

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Pain aka Mastalgia or Mastodynia

Cyclical w/ menses - no pathologic correlate

Non-cyclical - can be ruptured cyst or areas of injury/infection

Majority of painful masses are benign - 10% of breast cancers present w/ pain

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Whta’s the second most common breast symptom?

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Discrete palpable masses

Palpable = more than 2 cm and not just diffusely lumpy bumpy

Likelihood of malignancy increases w/ age

MOST COMMON CAUSE - Fibroadenomas, cysts

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Bloody nipple discarge - what’s the worry?

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most commonly benign lesions or cysts but malignancy risk incresases w/ age and worried about Solitary Large Dcut Papilloma - Intraductal Papilloma!

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Milky Discharge?

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Increased Prolactin = galactorrhea

NOT associated w/ malignancy

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Name the inflammatory conditions of the breast that we discuss.

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Acute mastits

Fat necrosis

Periductal mastitits

Mammarry Duct ecxtasia

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What is acute mastitis? cuases and presentation? treatment?

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Most commonly seen during first month of nursing! Lactational mastitis

cracks and fissures in npple let in Staph Aureaus

can get abscess

Tx: complete drainage of milk and antibiotics

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What is fat necrosis of the breast? Presentation? Causes? HIsto features?

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Painless palpable mass

Skin thickening or retraction

**Mammographic densitiy of calcifications - can mimic malignancy

Caused from history of trauma or surgery OR can see implant from silicone implant capsule leak and get inflammatory reaction

See irregular steatocytes w/ no peripheral nuclei and inflammatory cells / macrophages responding to necrotic fat cells

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Peridcutal Mastitis - aka?

Presentation?

MOST COMMON ASSOCIATION?

How does this happen?

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Aka Recurrent Subareolar abscess, Squamous metaplasia of lactiferous ducts, Zuska disease

Painful red subareolar mass

>90% of patients are smokers!!!

See squamous metaplasia and keratinization of nipple ducts -> duct ruptures and granulomatous response to keratin results in red painful mass

Fistula tract may burrow beneath SM of nipple and open at edge of areola

see picture

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Mammary duct ectasia - Who gets it? What not associated with it? Presentation? What causes presentaiotn?

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seen in 5th/6th decade of life in multiparous women

NOT associated w/ cigarrete smoking

poorly defined palpable periareolar mass w/ skin retration

*THICK WHITE OR GREEN BROWN NIPPLE SECRETONS!!!! from broken down fatt secretions in milk and heomrrhage and then Histiocytes eat em up!

chronic inflammation and fibrosis around ectatic duct filled w/ debris

Can mimic irrgegular sape of carcinoma on mammogram

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What are the Intralobular Stromal Tumors?

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Fibroadenoma and Phyloidies tumor

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Most common benign breast tumor? Presentation? Who gets it? What does it look like?

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Fibroadenoma

Seen before age 30

Palpable, MOBILE mass in young women and can see mammographic density in other women bc can grow fast and infarct

Regress after menopause and bigger in pregnancy

From Proliferation of Intralobular stroma

Wellcircumscirbed tumor of spindle stroma cells and strentched out epithelium

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Phylloides tumor - presentation? significance? What does it look like?

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Fibroadenoma will NEVER become malignant but phylloides tumors tend to recur and eventually turn high grade

Older patients 50-60 yo

LOW GRADE MALIGNANCY

rarely metastasize to lungs

see infiltrative border, increased mitosis and stromal cellularity

*Leaf-like architecture

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What are non-proliferative breast changes? Significance of them? What can they cause?

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Fibrocystic changes - NO INCREASED RISK OF CANCER but can cause mass, calcifciations, pain and swelling

Regress after menopause

Cysts, Fibrosis, Adenosis

Fibrosis from cyst rupture

Adenosis - increased number of acini in lobule

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Non-proliferative changes - Cysts - how do they present? What do the look like? What lines them?

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Blue Dome cysts

ill-defined fibrous areas that are blue bc yellowish secretions that are fatty/milky

Smooth white areas of fibrosis

Apocrine lining of cysts - similar to sweat glands

Cuboidal, Apocrine, sometimes atypia

Calcifications are common

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What are the Proliferative changes w/o Atypia of breast tissues?

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Epithelial Hyperplasia

Sclerosing Adenoisis

Intraductal Papilloma

Complex Sclerosing lesion

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What do you see in Epithelila hyperplasia? risk for cancer?

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Lumen filled w/ heterogenous, mixed population of luminal and Myoepithelial cell types

Mild - small increase in numers and no risk

Mod / severe - elevated risk for cancer when more filled

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What do you see in Sclerosing Adenosis/ What is it? Cancer risk?

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Adenosis = Increased number of Acini in lobules

Fibrosis scar w/ it and cut lobules into several then see scarring and get _*Calcifications!!!!_

Can mimic cancer histologically bc pseudoinfiltrative pattern

Slightly elevated risk of cancer in both breasts

*Radial Sclerosing LEsion - central area dense fibrosis and Florid hyperplasia and cysts

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What is Intraductal Papilloma? (vs papillary carcinoma)

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Large Duct Papilloma

subareolar, solitary

PRESENTS w/ Bloody nipple discharge but is benign!

Seen in younger women - premenopausal and there are _2 layers of cell_s lining it (myoepithelial and epithelial)

vs Papillary Carcinoma which is older women and loss of Myoepithelial layer

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What is Proliferative Breast disease w/o Atypia? Causes? Can men get it? What do you see? Cancer?

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GYNECOMASTIA!!!!

Imbalance between Estogens that sitmulate breast tissue and androgens

seen in Puberty and Old age

*CIRRHOSIS and medications

Male breasts may develop but they do not have lobules!

Epithelial hyperplasia of ducts (no lobules)

Stromal edema and fibrosis

small increased risk BC

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What are the Proliferative Breast Diseases w/ Atypia?

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Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia and Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia

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ADH - what drives proliferation? What does it look like? Cancer Risk?
**\*Overexpression of ER/PR drives malignant proliferation** See Ductal Proliferation w/ some (not all) features of DCIS - can be aneuploid, clonal, or have MI - Multicentric - Minority progress tocancer Cancer risk is 4-5x in either breast and absolute risk is 13-17% in 15 years
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ALH - what do you see? Cancer risk? Genetics? Hallmark of Lobular? (vs ductal)
Acinar Proliferation but not fully LCIS **Multi-Focal and Bilateral = LOBULAR** Often an incidental finding Might share or progress to genetics of LCIS - loss of **E-cadherin** protein from gene mutation Cancer risk 4-5x EITHER BREAST Abs risk 13-17% in 15 years
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Discuss the 3 different low grade vs high grade pathways to carcinoma in the breast.
**1) ER+ Proliferative Disease** = germline _BRCA 2 mutations_ w/ Hormone driven sequence from _flat epithelial atypia_ to _Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia_ to _DCIS_ to invasive cancer that is **_ER+ HER2- aka Luminal_** (50-60%) **2) ER- TP53 germline mutation** and _HEr2 amplification_ to _Atypical Apocrine Adenosis_ to _DCIS_ to **HER2+ Carcinoma** (20%) **3) ER - germline BRCA 1 mutation + TP53 mutations t**o DCIS to **high grade ER-/HER2- "Basal-like" carcinoma** (15%) See chart
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What is DCIS? Where is it detected? What is detected? RISK FOR CANCER? Tx?
DCIS = malignant clonal proliferation of epith cells limited to ducts by BM and preservation of Myoepithelial cells Driven by ER/PR 30% low grade progress but most high grade progress to invasive 50% of mamographically detected cancers **Micro-calcifications - branching** *DONT GO AFTER ADH bc generalized risk but you DO go after DCIS bc Direct precursor for invasion right there so get rid of it!* Invasive cancer risk 8-10x IPSILATERAL - same site as DCIS
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Histologic features of DCIS high vs low grade?
_Low grade -_ unform cells w/ rigid structures w/in duct, **Calcifications** in open spaces **Swiss Cheese** _High grade -_ **Central necrosis** pleomorphic cells
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What is comedo DCIS? Significance of it? Gross and Micro?
**Comedocarcinoma** - high grade DCIS w/ Central NEcrosis more likely to **produce a mass** and progress to invasive cancer _Gross_: Fibrotic **mass** w/ white necrotic material in dilated ducts ("comedons like acne" _Micro_: high grade solid DCIS w/ **LOTS of central necrosis and Fibrosis -** desmoplastic reaction SEE PIC
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What is PAget's Disease of the Nipple? what do you see?
See Hyperemia and Ulceration PAget's = spread of malignant cells into the epidermis through the LActiferous ducts and into skin - disrupt tight squamous epithelial cell barrier and get oozing scaly crust See picture
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What are the features of Lobular CArcinoma in situ that we should DEF KNOW?!?!?! Treatment?
**_LCIS = MULTIFOCAL AND BILATERAL_** Loss of expression of _ECADHERIN CDH1_ Cancer Risk 8x in EITHER BREAST - BILATERAL Most LCIS is not a direct precursor to invasive carcinoma but a marker of incrased risk bilaterally ***"Discohesive Cells distending Acine - bag of marbles feeling"*** Indication for **Bilateral Mastectomy** **TAMOXIFEN for low risk progression**
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General - Proliferative Epithelial lesions (w/ or w/o atypia): Symptoms or no? Benign? Cancer risk?
No symptoms but frequently detected as mammographic abnormalities Classified according to risk of cancer to EITHER BREAST majority are not precursors to cancer just markers of risk
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DCIS vs LSCIS risk for cancer in general
DCIS = direct precursor for invasive cancer in SAME breast LCIS = mixed bag - most are not direct precursors but marker of increased BILATERAL risk
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What is most bresat cancer?
Invasive Ductal CArcinoma
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What are some Benign causes of Calcifications on mammography? Other than those what does calcifcation on mammography imply?
**Fat Necrosis** **Sclerosising adenosis** Calcifications, and not masses, result from dead cells in lumen of ducts (Dystrophic calcifications) and are the biggest indicator for ductal carcinoma
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What is the most powerful prognostic and predictive factors?
TNM stage - most powerful prognostic and can be predictive N most powerful but M determines whether cure is possible
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What is most common type of breast cancer? How does it present on imaging? and in Histo? How does it spread?
**INVASIVE DUCTAL CARCINOMA** - 85% all breast cancers Presents w/ ill-defined or **stellate/spiculated mass** on imaging Irregular borders Rock hard mass from desmoplastic reaction _Histo_ - Ductal so trying to recapitulate nests/lobules Spreads hematogenously to Bone, Lung, Brain and Liver as well as to LN
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What is the presentation of Invasive Lobular carcinoma? Where do Mets go? Genes? --\> Genes related to increased risk for what other cancer?
ILC 5-10% breast cancer **20% BILATERAL** **MULTICENTRIC** - Diffuse and poorly defined Mets to CSF on menigneal coverings, BM (anemia/transcytopenia), Uterus, and Peritoneum Bi-allelic loss of expression of **CDH1 - E-Cadherin** --\> Increased risk _Gastric Signet Ring cell Carcinoma_
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What is the Histology and interesting patterns of Invasive Lobular carcinoma?
Bland cells infiltirate SINGLE CELL AT A TIME W/ NO REACTION! **indian File** No palpable and invisible on imaging can look like lymphocytes in stroma and so easily missed!
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What are breast cancers w/ more favorable prognoses?
Medullary Carcinoma Colloid aka Mucinous Carcinoma Tubular Carcinoma (BEST ONE TO GET!)
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There are 4 subtypes of Invasive ductal carcinoma - name them and they're main feautres:
**_1) Medullary Carcinoma -_** BRCA muts in younger patients, ugly high grade malignant tumors but behaves well bc of Inflammatory response **_2) Colloid/Mucinous Carcinoma_** - litlte _old lady_ tumor w/ mucin lakes and good prognosis **_3) Tubular Carcinoma_** - Best one to get - only 1 cell type and desmoplasia **_4) Invasive Micropapillary_** - BAD - lymphatic vessel invasion and LN involvement - breast red and swollen **- DERMAL LYMPHATICS** *- looks like Acute Mastitis*
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What do you see in Metaplastic Carcinoma?
Non-Glandular (metaplastic) Differentiaiton Spindle CEll carcinoma Squamous cell carcinoma Sacromatous - Maligntant Chondorid/Osteodid - Matrix producing carcinoma BAD PROGNOSIS
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How do you evaluate LN involvement in breast cancer?
Sentinel LN biopsy - sensitive and specific predcitor of full axillary status Axillary LN dissection for + LN
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Lymphatic/Vascular invasion is a _______ prognostic factor Especially important in what T/N/M stages of tumors?
Negative Prognostic but can inform treatment choices Important in T1 LN tumors - ID subset of patients at increased risk for distant mets
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What do you see in Inflammatory breast carcinoma? Significance?
**Skin Erythemia and Peu-d-orange (dimpling in skin)** WORST CLINICAL SITUATION THERE IS tumor in dermla lymphtatics \< a few months to live
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Ancillary IHC testing for hormone receptor status can be.......
Positive Prognostic Factor Positive Predictive Factor
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HER2/NeU is what kind of gene change? What's happening there? Signigicance?
HER2/NEU = C-ERB2 Oncogene that encodes a cell surface protein from GFR family By iteslf is NEGATIVE prognostic but POSITIVE PREDICTIVE!!!! Amplification/Overepxression in tumors means eligible for treatment w/ Trastuzumab
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What is KI-67?
Proliferation index that can be measured by IHC
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HER2+ tumors are more likely what kind of histology?
APOCRINE - ductal NOS apocrine - overexpressed androgen receptors seen in young non-white women P53 mutation
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What histologic type of tumors are Basal like aka Triple negative?
Medullary Metaplastic Lymphoepithelial
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BRCA2 associated with?
Luminal B high proliferation high histo grade ER + ductal invasive carcinomas and male prostate and breast cancer
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What is the epi profile for Basal like triple neg tumors? Mutation Treatment?
Young, AA, Hispanic **BRCA 1** Bilateral MAstectomy indicated Dramatic response to chemo and relapse quickly but can come back w/ vengence
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