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Breast Disease
DUCTAL
Triple Assessment done if is suspected/2 week wait criteria met. CARCINOMA
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cancer


MAMMOGRAPHY
1.
History Examination
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Ultrasound
2.
Mammogram imaging
or


3.
Biopsy Luma Core Fine Needle I
of or




Ultrasound:used in women 35and men due to denser breasttissue.
younger
Also used in pregnant/breastfeeding to avoid radiation exposure.
·

women




used Red
Mammography:X-Ray in older women: 35.
Flags:
Also used for from 50-71.
screening 3
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every years age
Peau
d'orange/dimpling
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Malignant
Painless, Tethered, Irregular lump
Disease
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Retracted nipple
Bloody Discharge
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Types: weight loss, night sweats, lymph
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Ductal:affects ducts. Most common type.
mammary
Risk Factors:
Ductal Carcinoma in situ (DCIS): ·



prolonged destrogen exposure,
Cells contained within ducts. oestrogen promotes
Non-Invasive, Pre-malignant. as breast growth
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seen as Calcification on
imaging. and ... increases mutation chance.
Less common
subtype
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Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC/NST): FH
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Progression of DCIS, and can metastasise. Stroma invaded. -


BRCA1/2, HER2 mutation
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more common
subtype
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Early menarche, late menopause
HRT
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·Lobular:affects lobule combined Pill
glands.
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pregnancies
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no


·Other Cancers:Tubular, Medullary, Mucinous, Paget's, etc.
Obesity
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common metastasis:

Management: Spine, Brain, liver, lungs. Pathogenesis:
Some ER+tive,
·

cancers are

done with sentinal while others HER2 tive.
staging de biopsy in axilla.
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no are

node clearance done if biopsies
Axillary positive. Cancers that ER and HER2-five
·

are are

have worst
Risk of lymphoedema. prognosis.

wide local excision (WLE) Radiotherapy
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+




-Mastectomy
Hormone Therapy:used in ER+tive disease
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e.g. Tamoxifen (SERM)
Anastrazole (Aromatase inhibitor)
Goserelin (GnRH analoquel
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Herceptin, Ab used in HER2 tive disease.
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