Intraductal Lobular with Microinvasion

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AnkleEye
AnkleEye Member Posts: 12
edited June 2014 in LCIS (Lobular Carcinoma In Situ)

Hi - This is all I know I have.  I learned today.  I am not even sure where to post this.  Please advise me.  Thank you!!!!!!1

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2010

    from what you've described, it sounds like you have DCIS with a microinvasion (which would actually be IDC)--you might get more responses on the DCIS thread and more acurate info. (DCIS and LCIS are different and treated quite differently. Best of luck to you.

    Anne

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited August 2010

    from what you've described, it sounds like you have DCIS with a microinvasion (which would actually be IDC)--you might get more responses on the DCIS thread and more acurate info. (DCIS and LCIS are different and treated quite differently. Best of luck to you.

    Anne

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  • AnkleEye
    AnkleEye Member Posts: 12
    edited August 2010

    No, my doctor said it wasn't DCIS!!  She said it was intraductal lobular with microinvasion.  I can't even find much online about that.  This is so nerve-wrackingly confusing.

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  • leaf
    leaf Member Posts: 8,188
    edited August 2010

    Maybe different people define their words differently.  There certainly can be disagreement between pathologists on how to classify a certain condition; this can happen particularly with DCIS, LCIS, ALH and ADH. Then plus the microinvasion.

    The American Cancer Society says Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS; also known as intraductal carcinoma) is the most common type of non-invasive breast cancer. DCIS means that the cancer cells are inside the ducts but have not spread through the walls of the ducts into the surrounding breast tissue.http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/BreastCancer/DetailedGuide/breast-cancer-what-is-breast-cancer (emphasis mine).

    A person can have LCIS with pagetoid spread to the ducts. (My pathology report says I have this.) I have seen another poster who said she had DCIS with pagetoid spread to the lobules.  (Pagetoid means something like  the cells look like they are spreading upward...) Maybe you have something like that???, then with microinvasion.

    Maybe your intraductal cancer spread into the lobules?  Maybe your doctor means that 'with microinvasion' it can't be DCIS, but is early IDC?  So maybe in more traditional terms you have DCIS with spread to the lobules with microinvasion, making it early stage IDC, like Anne suggested?  I'm just guessing.

    I hope you have or get a written copy of your pathology report.  It sure sounds confusing to me.

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