About Mucinous carcinoma (colloid) breast cancer.
Should it is chemo first, then surgery (either - lumpectomy vs
mastectomy) then radiation?
or
Surgery (either lumpectomy vs mastectomy) then followed by radiation
treatment or/and chemo?
from www.cancer.org
Mucinous carcinoma: Also known as colloid carcinoma, this rare type of
invasive breast cancer is formed by mucus-producing cancer cells. The
prognosis for mucinous carcinoma is usually better than for the more
common types of invasive breast cancer.
I looked at:
http://ww3.komen.org/home/ (Komen Race for the Cure events)
www.cancer.gov
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/breastcancer.html
www.cancer.org
www.breastcancer.org
others are at http://dir.yahoo.com/Health/Diseases_and_Conditions/Breast_Cancer/
I search the archives at alt.support.cancer.breast
and there were two from 1994.
Colloid carcinoma Does anyone know how colloid carcinoma's start?
Someone just had a lump removed.
It was, however, surrounded by smaller cysts filled with fluid that
weren't on
the mammogram two years previous. Could those harbor cancer cells
waiting to
divide and become tumors? Would it be better now to have complete
radiation on ...
Jan 26 2004 by Tim Jackson - 2 messages - 2 authors
Answers needed Someone newly diagnosed with "Colloid carcinoma or
Mucinous carcinoma" in the breast
is in need of info. >> Alex wrote: Colliod carcinoma of the breast in
one of the
... ALex>> Please, excuse, when I responded to your post, I had
forgotten that
you had written that you had "colloid carcinoma" or "mucinos
carcinoma. ...
Jan 25 2004 by Kaye301 - 7 messages - 4 authors
Thanks
Mike
Tim Jackson - 05 May 2008 23:50 GMT
> About Mucinous carcinoma (colloid) breast cancer.
>
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> Thanks
> Mike
Firstly, I didn't write that which is attributed to me above, I
responded to it. And I stand by what I said at the time, which was to
ask an oncologist. This condition is too uncommon to expect anyone not
an expert on the subject to answer a question like that, and even then
they wouldn't do so without knowing a lot of details of the case.
That said, chemotherapy before surgery is usually only done when the
tumour is large or attached to critical structures, when reducing it can
simplify the surgery.
Tim Jackson
sarahz@rocketmail.com - 08 May 2008 02:31 GMT
When my biopsy came back "mucinous", my oncologist told me that it is
exceedingly rare to have a purely mucinous tumor. Sure enough, when
then entire tumor was removed the pathology showed a mix of invasive
ductal and mucinous cells.
And I completely agree that this is a subject that requires an expert
(or maybe several?) to evaluate the specifics of the case.