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Describe Porliferative fibrocystic change?
- epithelial hyperplasia
- sclerosisng adenosis
- 1-5 times increased risk of breast cancer
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Which type of fibrocystic change increased the risk of breast cancer by 1-5 times?
Proliferative
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Which type of Fibrocystic change includes epithelial hyperplasia and sclerosing adenosis?
Proliferative
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Mammograms can pick up calcifications (T/F)?
True
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What is epithelial hyperplasia, as in fibrocystic change?
proliferation of the duct epithelium
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What is sclerosing adenosis, as in fibrostic change?
proliferation of the breast acini with stromal fibrosis
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What is the term for proliferation of breast acini with stromal fibrosis?
Sclerosis adenosis
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What is the term for proliferation of the duct epithelium?
Epithelial hyperplasia
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What group is fibroadenoma most common in?
age = 20s and 30s
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What does a fibroadenoma feel like?
Freely moveable well defined mass
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A fibroadenoma is biphasic (T/F)?
True, it involves both the glands and stroma
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Because a fibroadenoma involves both the tissues of the stroma and glands it is reffered to as:
biphasic
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How si fibroadenoma treated?
local excision
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A shrply demarcated border of a neoplasm in the brast indicates what type of tumor?
Fibroadenoma
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What disease looks like "Chinese letters" histologically?
Fibroadenoma
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Describe a Papilloma:
Proliferation of duct epithelium in the lumen
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What are symptoms of Papilloma?
Nipple bleeding
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What percent of nipple bleeding is due to papilloma?
50%
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Phyllodes tumor is what?
A biphasic, usually benign tumor taht involves the proliferation of the glands and stroma
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Fibroadenoma or Phyllodes tumor are more common?
Fibroadenoma
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What size are phyllodes tumors?
3-4 cm, but can grow to massive size
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What age group is susceptible to Phyllodes tumor?
50-60 years
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What does the tissue look like in a patien t with Phyllodes tumor?
Leaf like architecture
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What type of tumor has a leaf like architecture?
Phyllodes
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Phyllodes tumor is malignant (T/F)?
False, it is usally benign and rarely malignant
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How is phyllodes tumor cured?
Local excision
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How many women will develop breast cancer?
1 in 9
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How many women will die of breast cancer?
1 in 33
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What is the most common cancer in women in the US?
Breast cancer
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What is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the US?
Breast cancer
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Howmany men compared to women get breast cancer?
1:100
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What percentage of women with breast cancer are over the age of 50 years?
75%
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75% of women with breast cancer have this in common:
Are over the age of 50
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The incidence of breast cancer is increasing or decreasing around the world?
Increasing worldwide
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What percent of breast cancers are due to genetics?
3-10%
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3-10% of all breast cancers are due to what?
Genetics
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2/3 of hereditary breast cancers are due to what two genes?
BRCA 1 and 2
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What proportion of hereditary breast cancers are due to BRCA 1 and 2?
2/3
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Mortality of breast cancer increases with what other factor?
Age
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Incidence increases with age until _____ when it begins to decline.
75-79
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What are thesix signs of breast cancer?
- Lump
- Enlarged local lymph nodes
- exzema of the nipple
- nipple discharge
- nipple retration
- orange peel look (advanced stage)
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What lymph nodes will likely be swollen in a breast cancer patient?
Axillary nodes in the axillanad subclavicular area
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