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breast pathology Flashcards

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What are examples of benign breast conditions?

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Fibrocystic change

  • Fibrosis, adenosis, cysts, apocrine metaplasia, ductal epithelial hyperplasia (usual type and atypical)Fibroadenoma
  • Circumscribed mobile nodule in reproductive ageOther adenomas
  • Tubular adenoma and lactating adenomaIntraduct papilloma
  • Lactiferous ducts, nipple discharge
  • Fat necrosis
  • Duct ectasia
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What are examples of fibrocystic changes to the breast?

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  • Fibrosis, adenosis, cysts, apocrine metaplasia, ductal epithelial hyperplasia (usual type and atypical)
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What is fibroadenoma?

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Proliferation of epithelial and stromal elements

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What is the most common breast tumour in young adult woman?

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Fibroadenoma

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What are the different types of fibroadenoma?

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Intracanalicular pattern

  • Ducts distorted elongatedPericanalicular pattern
  • Ducts not compressed
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What are characteristics of fibroadenoma?

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  • Well-circumscribed, freely mobile, no painful mass
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What is the management for fibroadenoma?

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  • May regress with age
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Describe the epidemiology of tubular adenoma (how common compared to fibroadenoma, young/older woman)?

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  • Less common than fibro adenomas

* Young woman

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What are characteristics of tubular adenoma?

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  • Uniform sized ducts
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What is lactating adenoma?

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Enlarging masses during lactation or pregnancy:

  • Prominent secretory change
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Describe the epidemiology of intraduct papilloma (young/middle/older woman)?

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  • Usually middle aged woman
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What are characteristics of intraduct papilloma?

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  • Nipple discharge, bloody
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What is the aetiology of fat necrosis?

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  • History of antecedent trauma, surgery
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What is seen in the histology for fat necrosis of the breast?

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  • Histiocytes with foamy cytoplasm
  • Lipid-filled cysts
  • Fibrosis, calcifications, egg shell on mammography
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What is a possible complication of fat necrosis?

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  • Can stimulate carcinoma
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What are characteristics of phyllodes tumour?

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  • Fleshy tumour, leaf-like pattern and cysts on cut surface

* Circumscribed, connective tissue and epithelial elements

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What are possible complications of phyllodes tumour?

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Rapid growing so is borderline malignant

  • Metastases are haematogenous
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What are the 5 subtypes of molecular classification for breast carcinoma?

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  • ER and luminal A
  • Luminal B
  • Basal
  • Her2
  • Normal breast like
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What molecular classification of breast carcinoma is most common?

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Luminal A

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For each molecular subtype of breast carcinoma, are they positive or negative for:

  • ER
  • PR
  • HER2
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What is the aetiology for breast carcinoma?

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Different breast lesions have potential to become cancer

  • Epithelial proliferation without atypia – RR 1.5-2x
  • With atypia ductal or lobular – RR 4-5x
  • LCIS – RR 8-10x
  • DCIS – RR 8-10x
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Describe the epidemiology for breat cancer (fraction of females, fraction of all female cancers)?

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  • 1/8 females, 22% all female cancer
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What are the different histological classifications for breast carcinoma?

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Non-invasive

	Different types
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)
  • Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS/LISN)
  • Not detected clinically (only x-ray)
    Risk of invasion depending on grade
  • Low grade DCIS – 30% in 15 years
  • High grade DCIS – 50% in 8 years
  • LCIS - 19% in 25 years and bilaterallyInvasive
  • Invasive ductal carcinoma 75%
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma
    Special types
  • Tubular carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma, carcinoma with medullary features, metaplastic carcinoma
24
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What are different types of non-invasive breast carcinoma?

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  • Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)

* Lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS/LISN)

25
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What does DCIS stand for?

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Ductal carcinoma in situ

26
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What does LCIS stand for?

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Lobular carcinoma in situ

27
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Risk of invasion for non-invasive breast carcinomas depends on what?

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Risk of invasion depending on grade

  • Low grade DCIS – 30% in 15 years
  • High grade DCIS – 50% in 8 years
  • LCIS - 19% in 25 years and bilaterally
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What are different kinds of invasive breast cancers?

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  • Invasive ductal carcinoma 75%
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma
    Special types
  • Tubular carcinoma, mucinous carcinoma, carcinoma with medullary features, metaplastic carcinoma
29
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What are risk factors for breast carcinoma?

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  • Gender
  • Age
  • Menstrual history
  • Age at first pregnancy
  • Radiation
  • Family history
    Genetic
  • BRCA1 and BRCA2
  • Personal history
    Hormonal treatment
  • Oestrogen exposureOther factors
  • Obesity, lack of exercise, alcohol
30
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What genes have biggest impact for developing breast carcinoma?

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BRCA1 and BRCA2

31
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What are characteristics of breast carcinoma (mammogram and macroscopic)?

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Mammogram

  • Soft tissue opacity, microcalcificationMacroscopic
  • Hard lump, fixed mass, tethering to skin
32
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How does breast cancer spread?

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Local

  • Skin, pectoral musclesLymphatic
  • Axillary and internal mammary nodesBlood
  • Bone, lungs, liver, brain
33
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What organs does breast cancer commonly spread to through the blood?

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  • Bone, lungs, liver, brain
34
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What investigations should be done for breast carcinoma?

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  • Examination
    Imaging
  • Mammogram, USS, MRI
  • Sensitivity of mammography reduced in younger woman due to more glandular tissue being presentBiopsy
  • Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNA)
  • Needle core biopsy
  • Histology report looks at invasive vs non-invasive, histological type, grade, size, margins, lymph nodes, oestrogen/progesterone receptor, HER-2
    Also do sentinel lymph node biopsy
  • If negative, rest of nodes are negative
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What is the presentation of breast carcinoma?

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  • Asymptomatic
    Symptomatic
  • Lump
  • Mastalgia – persistent unilateral pain
  • Nipple discharge – blood stained
  • Nipple changes – Paget’s disease, retraction
  • Change in size or shape of breast
  • Lymphoedema – swelling of arm
  • Dimpling of breast skin
36
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Describe the managemnent for breast carcinoma?

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  • Staging
    Surgery
  • Masectomy, breast conserving surgery with or without lymph nodes
  • Radiotherapy
    Antihormonal therapy
  • Tamoxifen
  • Chemotherapy
37
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What antihormonal therapy can be used for breast carcinoma?

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Antihormonal therapy

	Tamoxifen
38
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What does the prognosis of breast carcinoma depend on?

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Patient and tumour related, depends on

  • Node status, tumour size, type, grade (1, 2, 3), age, lymphovascular space invasion
  • Oestrogen receptors, progesterone receptors, HER-2, proliferative rate of tumour, gene expression profiling
  • Can use Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) based on tumour size, grade and nodal status
  • Overall 64% 5 year survival
39
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What system is used to estimate prognosis of breast carcinoma?

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  • Can use Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) based on tumour size, grade and nodal status
40
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What does NPI stand for?

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Nottingham prognostic index

41
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Is Paget’s disease of the nipple benign or malignant?

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Malignant

42
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What is the aetiology for Paget’s disease of the nipple?

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  • Intraepithelial spread of intraductal carcinoma
43
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What is the presentation for Paget’s disease of the nipple?

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  • Large pale-staining cells within epidermis of nipple
  • Limited to nipple or extend to the areola
  • Pain or itching, scaling and redness
  • Ulceration, crusting, serous or bloody discharge
44
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What investigations are done for Paget’s disease of the nipple?

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  • Same as breast carcinoma
45
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How is screening for breast cancer done?

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Mammogram every 3 years for woman aged 50-70 years:

  • 30% reduction in mortality
    Indicators on mammogram
  • Masses
  • Microcalfications
46
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What age group qualifies for breast cancer screening and how often do they get this?

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Mammogram every 3 years for woman aged 50-70 years:

  • 30% reduction in mortality
    Indicators on mammogram
  • Masses
  • Microcalfications
47
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What are indicators on a mammogram of breast cancer?

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  • Masses

* Microcalfications

48
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What are examples of pathology of the male breast?

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  • Gynecomastia

* Carcinoma of male breast

49
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What is gynecomastia?

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Increase in subareolar tissue

50
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What is the most common pathology of the male breast?

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Gynecomastia

51
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What are risk factors for gynecomastia?

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  • Hyperthyroidism
  • Cirrhosis of liver
  • Renal failure
  • Chronic pulmonary disease
  • Hypogonadism
    Use of hormones
  • Oestrogens, androgens
52
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What hormones increase the risk of gynecomastia?

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  • Oestrogens, androgens
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