papillary and cribiform

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Can anybody help me.
Living in Spain , all my notes etc are in obviously in spanish . Most I can understand but some I´ve struggled with.
I have invasive ductal carcinoma , but then it say ´s part is intraductal of the type papillary and cribifrorm .

Thats lost me , I saw one of the doctors last week , but unfortunately he was one of the ones that does´nt speak any english , so there was no point asking , it would have got too complecated for me .
Help !

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Papillary carcinoma is quite rare - only 3% of women have it. It rarely becomes invasive. It has a good prognosis usually.

Cribrifom carcinoma affects the stringy bits between ducts and lobules - it looks like holey swiss cheese. It is usually low grade - which also carries a good prognosis.

So far so good - what else do your notes say? I think there are other women who live in Spain who post on here who might be able to help you.

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Thanks msmolly , I could´nt fimd out anything about that . Thats good to know , although I´m unsure as to how all three get to appear on my notes . Next time i get to see the onc I shall be sure to get him to explain some things to me .

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Hello,

I think I may be able to help you. I can speak spanish very fluently so maybe you can send me an attachement of what you would like to have translated.

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It is quite common to get a variety of different cancer types in one tumour. Mine was ductal carcinoma wrapped in ring of DCIS and 1mm of LCIS.
Yours appear to slow growing types which is very good news.
I hope HappyNipple (EXCELLENT name!) will be able to help with the translation side of things.
All the best. xx

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Happynipple , did you get the post I sent you ?

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Hello,

I’ve just replied to you

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What this means is that you have both invasive cells - cells that are no longer content to sit in their original position in the duct (pipe) and are invading into the surrounding tissue AND non-invasive cell. These non-invasive cell ARE malignant cells but they are sitting in the duct/pipe in their original position. You have a mixture of both. obviously it is the fact that you have invasive cancer present that is the important part of the diagnosis.