I have sent you a private message in response to this post. Hope it will be of some help while you await the expert's reply.
Warm regards...
Well had appointment and things are not good. Pathology report reads as follows...
show areas of grade 2 invasive intraductal carcinoma with adjacant areas of cancerization of the lobules and grade 2 intraductal carcinoma with focal comedo-like necrosis. Focal area of atypical lobular hyperplasia are also notes. the area of tumor is within marked area. The non marked areas show focal areas of intraductaal cacinoma and cancerization of the lobules and a few areas of somewhat crushed invasive carcinoma.
This sounds really bad. Any one have any information on this as this is very confusing to me. Awaiting my period now so I can have MRI 5t6o help further staging and lymph node status as well as tumor size. ANy imput would be great.....
I am just trying to understnad all the mumbo jumbo I understand that it is invasive ductal carcinoma but what does the rest mean for me? Or is this the usual information that comes along with the usual pathology report of a BC diagnosis?
Thank you for your response. I want to believe this is going to turn out to be nothing but benign, but everyone I have seen so far seems to say to me it is showing characteristics of a cancerous tumor. I think I have prepared myself pretty well for the possible negative out come. I am a very laid back person and have no problem fighting this disease if I have it.
I am just not sure I have prepared myself for the "what stage am I in" part because the size of the tumor itself seems to put me in the more advanced stages even if the nodes are not affected yet. Either way I will never give up hope. Still hoping for benign anyhow.
I will try and patiently await Thursday Morning and hope that maybe someone will call me with my results rather then waiting for the appointment with the Oncologist to get answers. In this day and age of internet and e-mail wouldn't you think the results would be e-mailed over to us A.S.A.P.
I would much rather get my results in writing, in my home then to have to go to a Dr. office and hear the news and have to try to keep it together if the news is not good. Well I will be getting copies of all my reports and will be sure to post my results. Crossing fingers.
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best...............
Dear cldubsokind, A solid mass with microcalcifications is suspicious but not definitive for a diagnosis of cancer. There are other benign (non-cancerous) conditions that can also present as a solid mass with microcalcifications, such as a fibroadenoma. Not until the biopsy results are known can we say definitely whether this is a cancer problem or not.
Staging of cancer is based on several pieces of information such as, tumor size, whether or not lymph nodes are involved, if cancer has spread to other parts of the body. At this point even if the results of the biopsy prove to be cancerous, there is not enough information for the doctor to be able to "stage" the cancer, further evaluation would still need to be done.