background: the present study was performed to investigate the effects of trace elements particularity se, zn and cu on tumor genesis in breast cancer. methods: the inhibitory effect of se, zn and cu, on telomerase activity was analyzed in human breast tumor tissues and breast cancer (t47d) cells. tissue specimens from 24 women with benign breast disease and 32 women with breast cancer specimen...

Lobular neoplasia (LN) is a term that encompasses both lobular carcinoma in situ and atypical lobular hyperplasia. These lesions have been shown to constitute both risk indicators and nonobligate precursors of invasive breast cancer, they are relatively uncommon, and are most often identified in specimens taken for other reasons. Their incidence has increased in the last 2 decades, and novel va...

A 53 year old woman presented with a lump in the inner lower quadrant of the left breast. Histological examination of the breast tumour confirmed that the lesion was a mammary hamartoma. Carcinoma with foci of microinvasion was observed in the lobules of the hamartoma concomitant with the intraductal spread of lobular carcinoma. Immunohistochemically, the cancer cells were negative for beta-cat...

PURPOSE Lobular carcinoma, the second most frequent type of breast cancer, accounts for 8-14% of all invasive breast cancers and presents a wide spectrum of differences from tumors of ductal origin. Its cytomorphologic features can create diagnostic problems. The purpose of this study was to identify the cytological and immunocytological features that support the diagnosis of lobular breast can...

Metastatic spread of breast carcinoma to the colon and rectum is rare. We report the case of a patient treated for lobular breast carcinoma presenting 17 years later with metastatic breast cancer of the colon. A 63-year-old lady with a past history of right-sided invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast presented with persistent diarrhoea. Colonoscopy with biopsies revealed a benign-looking str...

Backgound: In Italy in 2015 48,000 new cases of breast carcinomas were diagnosed. Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer have a significant risk of developing contralateral breast cancer during the rest of their lives and this risk is closely associated to the family history, to the onset of breast cancer at a young age and is expressed at about 0.5 to 1% of metachronous tumors per year. Th...

Signet ring cell (SRC) carcinoma is a unique subtype of adenocarcinoma; however, the clinicopathological profiles of SRCs in breast carcinoma are yet to be determined. Here, we investigated cyto-histological findings of 11 breast carcinoma cases with SRCs comprising more than 20% of the tumor cells; invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) (n=4), invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) (n=4), pleomorphic lobul...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Lobular carcinoma is the second most common type of breast neoplasia and has unique clinical and pathological features. Our aim was to evaluate prognostic factors for this type of breast cancer. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective study at a tertiary oncological institution. METHODS 162 patients diagnosed and treated between January 1985 and January 2002 were included. Th...