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    cervical cancer. With that I learned that there were two different types of cervical carcinomas; invasive and non-invasive. Henrietta had non-invasive which they also called carcinoma in situ because the cancer was in its original place. This type had been possible to diagnose for only 10 years. Before Henrietta's diagnosis he had began a study to prove carcinoma in situ was just as dangerous as invasive carcinoma. When Henrietta's cells were taken to the lab, Mary Kubicek didn't thing anything of

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    invasive ductal carcinoma. "This type of breast cancer is found in 80% of women" (BreastCancer.Org, 2015). Invasive ductal carcinoma remains to be a serious problem for men and women, and here is why. This type of breast cancer begins in the milk ducts of the breast. At first, there are normal cells, but then a mutation occurs. Some kind of carcinogen damages and changes a couple of genes. The mutated genes associated with breast cancer are Genes BrCA1 and BrCA2. The

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    generally will form in the lobules or milk ducts. Lobular carcinoma in situ, also called LCIS, is non-invasive. That means the it forms and stays in the lobules. Lobular carcinoma is invasive. That means that it develops in the lobules and breaks through and has a potential to spread to other parts of the body. Ductal carcinoma in situ is non-invasive. It forms and stays in the milk ducts. Ductal carcinoma is invasive and is when ductal carcinoma

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    mistaken for malignancy. This has a low power lobular architecture and there are usually adjacent benign changes with sclerosing adenosis and apocrine metaplasia. Rarely, the epithelium in sclerosing adenosis may show atypical hyperplasia or in situ carcinoma. In such cases, these changes should be recorded separately on the reporting form. Diagnosis: The clinical significance of sclerosing adenosis lies in its mimicry of cancer. It may be confused with cancer on physical examination, by mammography

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    Ductal carcinoma is when the cells that line the milk ducts have changed to look like cancer cells. The difference between Ductal carcinoma and an invasive cancer is that the cells have not spread outside the walls of the ducts to the surrounding breast tissue. Because it hasn’t invaded, Ductal carcinoma can’t spread or metastasize outside the breast to the rest of the body. DCIS has no signs or symptoms

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    Inflammatory Carcinoma

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    6) Secretory carcinoma: Grossly: the tumor is well circumscribed and firm. Microscopically, the tumor shows glandular, cystic or papillary pattern. Individual tumor cells may be granular or vacuolated tend to form spaces containing a periodic acid-schiff (PAS) positive secretion. Atypia is minimal and mitotic activity is low. (70) The prognosis is good and rate of lymph node metastasis is low. (34) 7) Inflammatory carcinoma: is clinically present with edema and redness of the breast skin, resembling

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    What is Breast Cancer? What is the Cause of it? Breast cancer is cancer cells that develop in the breast of a woman. The most common type of breast cancer is ductal carcinoma in situ. The cancer cells develop in the milk ducts of the breast. Doctors and researchers do not exactly know the cause of cancer. All they know is that it usually occurs when a cell’s DNA is damaged. When cells in the breast start to develop abnormally they begin to develop quicker than the normal cells. They also keep multiplying

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    It was Monday March 17th, 2014 when I received a phone call from my grandma asking me to come visit her. That day is the day when I received the news that my grandma has been diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma breast cancer. My grandma and I are very close. Her diagnosis is what persuaded me to write my I- search paper on this specific breast cancer. One topic I am really focusing on when I write my paper is the genetic factors because its important to my family and I. Even though I began

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    Breast Cancer Essay

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    rather than go through normal apoptosis" (p. 520). Types of Breast Cancers Per the American Cancer Society data, carcinomas and sarcomas are the two basic types of breast cancer. The first arises from the epithelial cells located in the ducts, including invasive and in situ; or lobules in the breast. Ductal carcinoma accounts for 80-90% of all breast cancers while lobular carcinoma makes up 5-10%. The latter originates in the connective tissue and blood cells and include phyllodes tumors and angiosarcomas

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    Neoplasm Research Paper

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    A neoplasm that can spread to many parts throughout the body, and can lead to death. 1. Carcinomas are the most common cancer, these develop first in the epithelial tissue of the skin, or nearby tissue that surrounds internal organs. Carcinoma in Situ is the beginning, invasive is when it has started to grow and possibly spread to nearby tissue or organs, and metastic is when it has travelled to more distal sites from

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