I was diagnosed with Lobular Adenocarcinoma on 17 April. I had a lumpectomy to remove a 9mm tumour and a sentinel lymph node. My MRI result is infiltrant TYPE classic, Elston and Ellis grade: II (differenciatio: 3 Atypies: 2 Mitoses: 1, type B5b lesion maglignant invasive
Status HER2: Score 3+ (HER2 positive)
Could you please explain my diagnosis?
Thanks
Wilmo
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Hi Wilmo
Thank you for posting.
It’s understandable that you would like information about your diagnosis. It’s not clear what information your treatment team have already given you, but it can be difficult to take it all in at the results appointment. Making sense of pathology results is often difficult and many of the medical terms used may be new to you as pathology reports are written in medical terms by doctors for doctors.
The results give details about the breast cancer that helps your treatment team to discuss the best treatment plan for your individual situation. The pathology report will give information about the features of your cancer such as the type of cancer which is lobular. Here is more information about invasive lobular cancer. The grade of the cancer is determined by the way the cancer cells look when viewed down a microscope compared with normal breast cells.
The report also indicates what is stimulating the cancer to grow. HER2 is a protein on the cell and a HER2 score of 3+ means that the level is higher than normal and is helping the cancer to grow.
Your treatment team considers all the feature of your cancer when deciding what treatment recommendations to make and if they haven’t already done so, will discuss this with you.
It sounds as though you may benefit from talking to your treatment team or breast care nurse to get a better understanding of what all this means for you.
In the meantime our booklet Understanding your pathology results has more information that may help.
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