Terms, techniques, and concepts frequently associated with breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are often contronted with imposing medical terms concerning the various different kinds of breast cancer, and the particular characterisitics of her own diagnosis. Quite often the diagnosis is for a benign breast condition, and there can be some anxiety as to whether or not these breast changes indicate increased risk for breast cancer. There are many specific technical terms used in treating breast cancers which are far less stressful once they are understood in simple, laymans terms.

 

Breast cancer-related histological techniques and analysis and techniques, and cellular biology in general.

1. Synaptophysin in neuro endocrine breast tumors.
2. Optical Coherence Tomography in breast cancer diagnosis.
3. Cytoplasm
4. Vesicular nucleus
5. Eosinophilic cytoplasm in breast tumors.
6. GCDFP-15 (Gross Cystic Disease Fluid Protein-15) Ab-1
7. arm parasthesia
8. Stereotactic biopsies of the breast

Miscellaneous terms relating to breast cancer screening, staging, and treatments.

1. Neuro-endocrine markers in breast cancer diagnosis
2. Loss of heterozygocity and chromosome 16q in invasive breast cancers.
3. HER2 status
4. Hormone Receptor status in breast cancers
5. lymphoscinitgraphy in breast cancer screening
6. breast X-ray architectural distortion
7. lymphedema in the breast
8. Micro-metastasis of breast carcinoma in sentinel lymph nodes
9. Breast-cancer immunohistochemistry

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Copyright Steven B. Halls, MD Last edited 14-August-2011