| It is significant and important to know breast cancer | | | | generally said to have a poorer prognosis. |
| type which has affected because knowing this | | | | Medullary Carcinoma: Medullary carcinoma is reported |
| immensely helps your physician to get best breast | | | | for 15% of all breast cancer type. This breast cancer |
| cancer treatment and also for you to ask better | | | | type most frequently occurs in women in their late |
| questions for your understanding and work along | | | | 40s and 50s. Their mammography presents with cells |
| with the physician in your treatment. | | | | that resemble the medulla that is the gray matter of |
| Breast Cancer Type: | | | | the brain. |
| Ductal Carcinoma In-Situ (DCIS): this is a type of | | | | Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma (ILC): Infiltrating lobular |
| early breast cancer which is confined to the inside of | | | | carcinoma a breast cancer type that usually appears |
| the ductal system. | | | | as a subtle thickening in the upper-outer quadrant of |
| Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma (IDC): one of the most | | | | the breast. ILC breast cancer type represents 5% of |
| common breast cancer types whose prognosis | | | | all diagnosis. If this breast cancer type occurs, they |
| represents 78% of all malignancies. The lesions | | | | are basically positive for estrogen and progesterone |
| appear as stellate i.e. star like or well-circumscribed a | | | | receptors, and thus breast cancer type ILC tumors |
| rounded areas on mammograms. The stellate lesions | | | | respond well to hormone therapy. |