Pathology of breast cancer in women irradiated for acute postpartum mastitis. [X rays]

Journal Article · Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 1980 · Cancer; (United States)

OSTI ID:6674202

Dvoretsky, P M; Woodard, E; Bonfiglio, T A; Hempelmann, L H; Morse, I P

The gross and microscopic pathology of breast cancers in women irradiated for acute postpartum mastitis was compared to the breast cancers found in the sisters of the irradiated women. In considering the lesions in the two populations, the size, location, histologic type, histologic grade, inflammatory response, lymphatic and blood vascular invasion, nipple involvement, axillary lymph node metastases, and menopausal status at the time of diagnosis were statistically indistinguishable. The only parameter that was different in the two populations was the desmoplastic response to the malignant lesion. The control population had more marked fibrosis within the cancers compared with the irradiated women.

• Research Organization: Univ. of Rochester, NY
• OSTI ID: 6674202
• Journal Information: Cancer; (United States), Vol. 46:10
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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