Definition
A special type of invasive carcinoma with an excellent prognosis that grows in a pattern similar to that seen in intraductal cribriform carcinoma.
Clinical Features
Incidence: Invasive cribriform carcinoma accounts for 0.3–0.8% of breast carcinomas (Venable et al. 1990; Li et al. 2005; Louwman et al. 2007); however, a frequency of up to 4% has been reported in some series (Page et al. 1983; Venable et al. 1990).
Age: Mean patient age is 53–58 years (Venable et al. 1990).
Sex: Female; rare in male as for other forms of breast cancer.
Site: Anywhere in the breast but most frequent in the upper outer quadrant like other types of breast cancer.
Treatment: Local control and hormone therapy are the main treatment options. Even when patients have axillary metastases from pure invasive cribriform carcinoma, the prognosis is good. The use of systemic adjuvant chemotherapy is typically not needed in pure...
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Rakha, E. (2018). Invasive Cribriform Carcinoma. In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4713-1
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