Invasive_lobular_carcinoma
Invasive lobular carcinoma
Medical condition
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) is breast cancer arising from the lobules of the mammary glands.[1] It accounts for 5–10% of invasive breast cancer.[2][3] Rare cases of this carcinoma have been diagnosed in men (see male breast cancer).[4]
Invasive lobular carcinoma | |
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Lobules of the mammary glands. | |
Specialty | Oncology |
Classic lobular | Pleomorphic lobular | |
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Grades | Low or high (II/III) | High (III) |
AJCC stage | I | II |
Lymph node status | Negative | Positive |
ER/PR status | Positive | Positive |
Surgery type | Lumpectomy | Mastectomy |
The histologic patterns include:[6][7][8]
Type | Prevalence | Description | Image |
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Classical | 40% | Round or ovoid cells with little cytoplasm in a single-file infiltrating pattern, sometimes concentrically giving a targetoid pattern | ![]() |
Mixed | 40% | No dominant pattern | |
Solid | 10% | Sheets of classical-appearing cells with little intervening stroma | |
Alveolar | 5% | Aggregates of classical-appearing cells | |
Tubulolobular | 5% | Cells form microtubules in >90% of tumor (smaller than in tubular carcinoma) | |
Pleomorphic | Classical-appearing but with pleomorphic cells. It may include signet-ring cells, or plasmacytoid cells (pictured) which have abundant cytoplasm and eccentric nuclei. | ![]() |
- Histopathology of invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), next to lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS)
- Invasive lobular carcinoma demonstrating a predominantly lobular growth pattern
- Lobular breast cancer. Single file cells and cell nests.
- ILC may be subtle on low magnification (left). Higher magnification (right) shows invasive growth pattern and vesicular nuclei with prominent nucleoli.
Overall, the five-year survival rate of invasive lobular carcinoma was approximately 85% in 2003.[9]
On mammography, ILC shows spiculated mass with ill-defined margins that has similar or lower density than surrounding breast tissues. This happens only at 44–65% of the time. Architectural distortion on surrounding breast tissues is only seen in 10–34% of the cases. It can be reported as benign in 8–16% of the mammography cases.[10]
Ultrasound has 68–98% sensitivity of detecting ILC. ILC shows irregular or angular mass with hypoechoic or heterogenous internal echoes, ill-defined or spiculated margins, and posterior acoustic shadowin.[10]
Loss of E-cadherin is common in lobular carcinoma but is also seen in other breast cancers.[11]
Treatment includes surgery and adjuvant therapy.
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- Yang, Li-Peng; Sun, He-Fen; Zhao, Yang; Chen, Meng-Ting; Zhang, Nong; Jin, Wei (2017). "Clinicopathological characteristics and survival outcomes in pleomorphic lobular breast carcinoma of the breast: a SEER population-based study". Cancer Medicine. 6 (12): 2867–2875. doi:10.1002/cam4.1244. ISSN 2045-7634. PMC 5727339. PMID 29131529.
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