Multifocal breast cancer

Last revised by Candace Makeda Moore on 16 Mar 2024

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.

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