Hello.
I have just been told I have breast cancer. The biopsy shows ‘Malignant; suggestive of invasive lobular carcinoma’.
Cells were found with ‘cytoplastic inclusions’.
The lump in the right breast is quite large and the left not so large.
Can you please let me know what these all mean?
Thank you in advance.
Suwanna
Hi suwanna
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Louise
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Hi Suwawnna,
Sorry you have had to join the club no-one wants to join.
I can help with the first part
‘Malignant; suggestive of invasive lobular carcinoma’ -
maligant means cancerous as opposed to benign which is a non-cancerous lump.
Invasive means the cancer has the capacity to spread outside of the tissues that it is currently in (you can get non-invasive which means the cancer hasn’t yet developed the ability to spread).
The lobular part means your cancer is in the lobes as opposed to ductal cancer where the cancer is in the milk ducts - yours is in the lobes (its a bit rarer than ductal I think).
Cells were found with ‘cytoplastic inclusions’- I’m afraid I can’t help with that but maybe someone else can.
Hope this helps, you will come to terms with all the terms and sadly become fluent in a language you never thought you would.
You’ll get lots of support on here. Try to take it one step at a time - ie surgery, chemo, etc - read only where you are up to otherwise you’ll scare yourself with information overload.
Feel free to ask lots of questions, no matter how silly, we’ve all been there, xxx