Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, LCIS

Lojo
Lojo Member Posts: 303
edited July 2015 in ILC (Invasive Lobular Carcinoma)

http://journals.lww.com/plasreconsurg/Citation/201...

This is an abstract regarding the cost of surveillance vs prophylactic surgery, but I noticed this interesting bit -- can someone help interpret ?

"Ipsilateral LCIS was predictive of malignancy in CPM patients". Does this mean that having LCIS in the affected breast was predictive of finding a malignancy in the other breast upon prophylactic mastectomy?


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  • JohnSmith
    JohnSmith Member Posts: 651
    edited July 2015

    An oncologist should answer this, but my interpretation is yes.

    If I'm reading this properly, it happened to my wife. Final pathology after her BMX indicated "atypical lobular hyperplasia" (among a couple other big words) in the good breast. We interpreted this as a potential malignancy on the path to bad behavior.

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