Τίτλος:
Pregnancy associated breast cancer (PABC): Aspects in diagnosis
Γλώσσες Τεκμηρίου:
Αγγλικά
Περίληψη:
Diagnosis of a clinical entity like pregnancy associated breast cancer (PABC) is as demanding and challenging as its rarity. Increasing incidence and controversy that exists in the literature upon prognosis, tumor aggressiveness and underlying mechanisms, highlight the importance of optimizing the diagnostic strategy in women with PABC. Adjustment of standard approach for breast cancer by modifying management methods and options plays key role in decision making. Knowledge of diagnostic modalities and their limitations, in accordance with awareness of physiologic hormone-induced changes of pregnancy and lactation, is the fundamental method of diagnosis in PABC. Thorough triple assessment (history/clinical examination, imaging and cytology/histology) enforces healthcare providers with all essential tools to avoid detrimental delay in diagnosis and to confront with their own hesitation to take action due to limited experience of the disease. © 2015-IOS Press and the authors.
Συγγραφείς:
Kakoulidis, I.
Skagias, L.
Politi, E.
Περιοδικό:
Breast Diseases
Λέξεις-κλειδιά:
breast biopsy; breast cancer; breast discharge; cancer diagnosis; cancer patient; clinical assessment; clinical assessment tool; clinical decision making; clinical examination; delayed diagnosis; diagnostic imaging; echomammography; fine needle aspiration biopsy; health care personnel; human; immunohistochemistry; incidence; lactation; mammography; medical history; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; pregnancy; pregnancy associated breast cancer; priority journal; professional knowledge; Review; sentinel lymph node biopsy; smear; breast tumor; female; pathology; Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; prevention and control; prognosis, Breast Neoplasms; Clinical Decision-Making; Delayed Diagnosis; Female; Humans; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; Prognosis
