Multifocal breast cancer
Last revised by Candace Makeda Moore
on 16 Mar 2024
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Moore C, Niknejad M, Knipe H, et al. Multifocal breast cancer. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 13 Feb 2025) https://doi.org/10.53347/rID-15076
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- Multifocal breast cancers
- Multifocal breast carcinoma
- Multi-focal breast cancer
Multifocal breast cancer refers to two or more individual breast cancers diagnosed at the same time within the same quadrant of the same breast 1.
There is however some heterogeneity in the way the term (as well as the term multicentric breast cancer) is used 4.
NB: When staging such breast cancers, the convention is to report on the features of the largest tumor in terms of size and extension of the tumor.
References
- 1. Cardeñosa G. Clinical breast imaging, a patient focused teaching file. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. (2006) ISBN:0781762677. Read it at Google Books - Find it at Amazon
- 2. Berg WA, Gilbreath PL. Multicentric and multifocal cancer: whole-breast US in preoperative evaluation. Radiology. 2000;214 (1): 59-66. Radiology (full text) - Pubmed citation
- 3. Sardanelli F, Giuseppetti GM, Panizza P et-al. Sensitivity of MRI versus mammography for detecting foci of multifocal, multicentric breast cancer in Fatty and dense breasts using the whole-breast pathologic examination as a gold standard. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2004;183 (4): 1149-57. AJR Am J Roentgenol (full text) - Pubmed citation
- 4. Avera E, Valentic L, Bui L. Current understanding and distinct features of multifocal and multicentric breast cancers. Cancer Reports. 2023; 6(9):e1851. doi:10.1002/cnr2.1851
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