Breast Pathology: Conventional Prognostic Markers
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease with a varied clinical outcome, underscoring the need for the use of reliable predictive and prognostic biomarkers….
Adjuvant/Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapies in Breast Cancer
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Adjuvant Chemotherapy Introduction Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females in Western countries [1]. The most recent Globocan data shows that…
Hormonal Therapy in Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Adjuvant Hormonal Therapy Introduction Breast cancer is one of the few cancers which are under hormonal regulation, and the manipulation of hormonal control…
Staging of Breast Cancer
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India The extent or stage of cancer at diagnosis is vital to assess the prognosis and determine the appropriate treatment. Uniform classification of cancer…
Invasive Micropapillary Carcinoma
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Invasive micropapillary carcinomas account for 1–2 % of all invasive breast carcinomas. They are clinically aggressive cancers, commonly found as mixed lesions with…
Hereditary Breast Cancer
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India The presence of a family history of breast cancer is a significant risk factor for the development of breast cancer. Although about 20–25…
Molecular Classification of Breast Cancers
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Gene expression profiling studies have revealed the presence of multiple molecular subtypes or intrinsic subtypes of breast cancer and have also shown that…
BI-RADS for Ultrasound
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) for Ultrasound (Based on the 5th Edition of ACR BI-RADS) The consistent use of BI-RADS descriptors…
Physics and Equipment Settings
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Ultrasound: Physics and Equipment Settings Breast ultrasound is a very important tool in diagnostic breast imaging. Understanding the physics of ultrasonography helps…
BI-RADS for Mammography
(1) Chennai Breast Centre, Chennai, India Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) for Mammography (Based on the Fifth Edition of ACR BI-RADS) BI-RADS was conceived as a framework…
