Ask-the-Expert Conferences: Your Pathology Report
In this section you can read the answers given by breast cancer experts to these, and many other important questions related to understanding your pathology report:
- "I've recently been diagnosed with infiltrating ductal carcinoma. My question is, how successful is lumpectomy with sentinel lymph node dissection in terms of ensuring a clean bill of health?" Answer.
- "My pathology report says that the margins were close. They are recommending doing a re-excision. Is this my best option?" Answer.
- "What is lymphovascular invasion and lymphatic invasion in the tumor? And what is necrosis?" Answer.
- "My surgeon removed the fascia. What does this mean?" Answer.
The conference transcripts in this section are part of the Breastcancer.org monthly Ask-the-Expert Online Conference program.
Every month, we invite you to ask questions and get answers from breast cancer experts on an important breast cancer-related topic.
Some of the topics we've covered in Ask-the-Expert Conferences include:
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