Ch 52 Assessment and management of patients with breast disorders Flashcards
Adjuvant chemotherapy?
The use of anti-cancer medication’s, in addition to other treatments to delay, or prevent a reoccurrence of the disease
Adjuvant hormonal therapy?
The use of synthetic hormones or other medications given after primary treatment to increase the chances of a cure by stopping or slowing the growth of certain cancers that are affected by hormones stimulation Also called endocrine or anti-estrogen therapy
Aromatase inhibitors
Medication’s that block, the production of estrogens by the adrenal glands
Atypical hyperplasia
Abnormal increase in the number of cells in a specific area within the ductile or lobular areas of the breast; this abnormal proliferation increases the risk for cancer
Benign proliferative breast disease
Various types of a typical, yet non-cancerous, breast tissue that increase the risk of breast cancer
Brachytherapy
Delivery of radiation therapy through internal implants, placed inside or adjacent to a tumor
BRCA one and BRCA2
Genes on chromazone 17 that, when damaged or mutated, increase a persons risk for breast, or ovarian cancer, compared with people without the mutation
Breast conservation treatment
Surgery to remove a breast, tumor, and a margin of tissue around the tumor without removing any other part of the breast; may or may not include lymph node removal and radiation therapy
Dose dense chemotherapy?
Administration of chemotherapeutic agents at standard doses with shorter time intervals between each cycle of treatment
Ductal carcinoma, in situ, DCIS
Cancer cells starting in the duct Al system of the breast, but not penetrating surrounding surrounding Tissue 
Fibrocystic breast changes
Term used to describe certain benign changes in the breast, typically palpable nodularity, lumpiness, swelling, or pain
Fine needle aspiration, FNA
Removal of fluid for diagnostic analysis, from a cyst or cells from a mass using a needle and syringe
Gynecomastia
Firm, over developed breast tissue typically seen in adolescent boys
HER2/NEU
A protein that,when found in larger amount, indicates an aggressive tumor
Lobular carcinoma, in situ LCIS
Atypical change and proliferation of the lobular cells of the pressed
Lymphedema
Chronic swelling of an extremity due to interrupted lymphatic circulation, typically from an auxiliary lymph node dissection
Mammo plasty
Surgery to reconstruct or change the size or shape of the breast; can’t be performed for reduction are augmentation 
Mastalgia
Breast pain, usually related to hormonal fluctuations, or irritation of a nerve
Mastectomy
Removal of the breast, tissue and nipple
Mastis
Inflammation or infection of the breast
Modified radical mastectomy
Removal of the breast, tissue, nipple, and a portion of the auxiliary lymph nodes
Paget disease
Form of breast cancer that begins in the ductile system, and involves scaly changes in the nipple, areola, and surrounding skin
Sentinel lymph node
First lymph node in the lymphatic basin that receives drainage from the primary tumor in the breast; identified by a radio, scope, or blue dye
Stereotactic core biopsy
Computer guided method of core needle biopsy that is useful. When masses or calcifications in the breast cannot be felt but can be visualized using mammography
Surgical biopsy
Surgical removal of all, or a portion of a mass for microscopic examination by a pathologist
Transverse rectus abdominous myocutaneous flap TR AM
Method of breast reconstruction, in which a flap of skin, fat, and muscle from the lower abdomen, with a detached blood supply is rotated to the mastectomy site
