Breast cancer staging
Common Questions and Answers about Breast cancer staging
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Information about whether or not cancer is found in the lymphnodes under the arm gives us information about spread of the cancer and is part of the staging of the cancer. Finding cancer in another part of the body – such as the hips, pelvis and spine also gives us information about staging of the cancer. Decisions about her treatment will be based on this information. Breast cancer that has metastasized (spread) to the bone would be called stage 4.
My 49 year old SIL has ovarian cancer. She had early stage breast cancer last year, tested + for BRCA 2 and they found the ovarian cancer during a routine PET scan. She's had a full hysterectomy and has just started 2 types of chemo. I know that one is through a port in her chest and the other will be through her stomach and she'll be hospitalized for that one. Her CA-125 was 3748 at the time of surgery.
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On a side note, PET/CT is rarely used to stage bladder cancer. On a PET/CT, the urinary system including bladder normally appears black (metabolic uptake), obscuring everything within it, making it difficult to detect underlying pathology.
PET/CT is used more for staging/restaging lymphoma, breast cancer, etc.
Some doctors order a bone scan as routine part of the staging work-up for breast cancer, while other oncologists prefer to have the bone scan done only if the patient manifests with symptoms (e.g. hip and back pains) which would make one suspect the presence of bone metastases. You can ask your friend's doctor the reasons why he has ordered a scan. I'm sure he'll be more than willing to explain things to you.
8 lymph nodes removed including sentinel lymph node all negative. Cancer found in only one breast. The other was completely negative. The AJCC classification is: PT2.PNO (I-).PMX. We do not understand this classification. Also there was no other tumors anywhere else. A PET and a CAT scan was done and the one tumor was it. There is a disagreement as to whether radiation and chemo should be done. We do not see the point since everything else was fine.
Dear sandreti, Checking the lymphnodes is part of the staging process of breast cancer care. When there has been any note of invasive cancer - a lymphnode dissection is recommended in order to check for any evidence of cancer spreading away from the breast. Being that there is invasive cancer despite the clear margins there can still be the possibility of cancer going to the lymph nodes. In cases of low to moderate risk of lymph node involvement (i.
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Many factors figure into the Staging of Breast Cancer. Your Oncologist would be the best person to answer your question about this. Since you haven't had your final surgery and removal and testing of lymph nodes there may not be an answer until all Pathology reports are finalized following the surgery. Regards ....
hi to all.My mother was diagnosed recently with breast cancer and had a mastectomy done.the doctor said that out of 13 lymph nodes removed from her armpit, 11 had cancer. she is right now on chemotherapy with something that the doctor called an AC regime.All her workup tests showed negative for cancer spread.but now she has got low backache.She had a slip disc few years back.could the recent pain be due to cancer spread to the bones? The bone scan was negative when done one month back.
The second week of July 2008, Mom had her left lower lobe removed and a sliver of the upper lobe. The doctor said he was staging her lung cancer a T2 because of the tumor's size (over 3 cm) and the tumor's behavior (it transversed the pleura). But, the tumor hadn't reached the chest wall. Based on the pathology report, it is belived there was no lymphnode involvement nor any metastisis to any other organ. What does "transversed the pleura" mean?
Hi,
There is a clinical staging and a pathologic staging. The clinical staging would look at the results of scans as well as the findings on physical examination, in order to decide whether particular suspicious areas may already have disease.
Pathologic staging would involve the pathologist reading though all areas that were sampled or removed. This would be definitive.
Biopsies are not without risks.
Hi I went for my yearly mammogram last week. Two days later I was called back for 2 suspicious areas in my right breast. Diagnostic radiographs showed 5 microcalcifications all in the same area and an irregular lesion in a different part of the breast. Ultrasound showed the irregular lesion to be a 7mm cyst. I was told to get a sterotaxic biopsy which was done 2 days ago. Worst experience of my life!
Hi,
Its hard to say if the radiologist was aware that you had a history of breast cancer, when the reading was written, it is also possible that the features are equivocal to say whether it looks malignant or not.
It would be important of course to find out if the nodules represent recurrent cancer.
Hi All,
My 35 years old mother of 2small kids sister was diagnosed with DCIS on April1st and Mastectomy had performed on April21st with DCIS on her right breast. Her pathology report shows as follows..
Lymph Node, Breast, Right-Sentinal Lymphnode Biopsy --> NEGATIVE FOR TUMAR (0/1)
Breast, Right-Modifief Radical Msstactomy -DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITE
Invasive Component : Negative.
Lobular Carcenoma in-situ : Negative.
i was diagnoised with invasive agressive breast cancer that had already gone to my bones. surgery was not an option at that point and i was given 5-6 yrs, that was in march of '05. i did very good for awhile but things are rapidly going down hill. they took me off chemo 'to give my body a rest' because of side effects. i am trouble walking and hands, feet, and arms are numb and not much dexterity. i wonder too how they know how long a person has.
My original diagnosis was Invasive Ductal Carcinoma...after my surgery (mastectomy) my pathology came back as small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, primary to the breast, no evidence of ductal or glandular carcinoma. Triple Negative for ER, PR and HER2. Have you ever seen this? My oncologist has not and has told me its rare, my reports, etc. are being sent to a pathologist that has actually written articles on this particular cancer of the breast.
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