Medullar carcinoma of breast which have been referred to as solid circumscribed carcinoma represents some characteristics different from ductal carcinoma in breast. To reveal these characteristics is important in order to manage more accurately the pa...
Medullar carcinoma of breast which have been referred to as solid circumscribed carcinoma represents some characteristics different from ductal carcinoma in breast. To reveal these characteristics is important in order to manage more accurately the patients with medullar carcinoma. However the characteristics of Korean medullar breast carcinoma were not clarified yet. So we analyzed the our experience for medullar carcinoma to determine its clinic pathological characteristics.
We evaluated 16 patients from January, 1989 to December, 1996. The results were follows ;
Medullar carcinoma was developed at rate of 4.3 % in breast cancers. Mean age was 46.7 years and most of them(62.5 %) was belonged to stage La. Negative expression of steroid receptor was more common and Diploidic pattern was common in flow cytometric study, compared with ductal carcinomas. All patients in this study was alive without recurrence in follow-up period(4 months 5 years).
In conclusion, we can suggest that medullar carcinoma of breast has a less aggressive behavior than invasive ductal carcinoma in spite of some bizarre histological characteristics.